title: Examining links between sexual risk behaviors and dating violence involvement as a function of sexual orientation.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To examine the association between dating violence perpetration and victimization and sexually risky behaviors among sexual minority and heterosexual adolescent girls.
  
  
  METHODS
  Adolescent girls reported on sexual orientation, sexual behaviors, and risk-taking, and their use of, and experience with, dating violence in the past year. Data were analyzed using multinomial regression adjusted for race, poverty, living in a single parent household, and gender of current partner to examine (1) whether sexual minority status was associated with sexual risk behaviors after sociodemographic correlates of sexual risk were controlled; and (2) whether dating violence context accounted for elevated risk.
  
  
  METHODS
  Urban, population-based sample of girls interviewed in the home.
  
  
  METHODS
  1,647 adolescent girls (38% European American, 57% African American, and 5% other) aged 17 years. Over one-third of the sample lived in poverty.
  
  
  METHODS
  None.
  
  
  METHODS
  Sexual risk-taking.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Sexual minority status differentiated girls engaging in high sexual risk-taking from those reporting none, after controlling for sociodemographic and relationship characteristics. Dating violence perpetration and victimization made unique additional contributions to this model and did not account for the elevated risk conferred by sexual minority status.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Sexual minority girls (SMGs) were more likely than heterosexual girls to report high sexual risk-taking and teen dating violence victimization. As with heterosexual girls, sexual risk-taking among SMGs was compounded by dating violence, which was not explained by partner gender. Adolescent girls' risky sexual behavior may be reduced by interventions for teen dating violence regardless of sexual minority status.
authors.affiliation: Western Psychiatric Institute & Clinic, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. hipwellae@upmc.edu
authors.forename: A E
authors.initials: AE
authors.lastname: Hipwell
authors.forename: S D
authors.initials: SD
authors.lastname: Stepp
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Keenan
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Allen
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hoffmann
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Rottingen
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: McAloon
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001727:Bisexuality / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005260:Female; D020010:Heterosexuality / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D018452:Homosexuality, Female / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D012309:Risk-Taking; D019529:Sexuality / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D047568:Unsafe Sex / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014505:Urban Population / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D014754:Violence / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*
keywords: Adolescent; Dating violence; Female; Minority health; Sexual behavior