title: Association Among Subtypes of Bullying Status and Sexually-Risky Behaviors of Urban African American Adolescents in Chicago.
abstract: Bullying is found to be associated with various negative psychosocial outcomes. However, few studies have explored the association between bullying involvement and sexually-risky behaviors. Youth were recruited from three high schools, one youth church group, two community youth programs, and four public venues. Six hundred-and-thirty-eight urban African American adolescents (aged 12-22) in Chicago completed a self-report questionnaire. Major findings indicated that males were more likely than females to have sex with someone in exchange for drugs. Bullying perpetration, victimization, and perpetration-victimization were negatively associated with having sex with a condom. Older youth, and those identified as perpetrators and perpetrator-victims were more likely to have impregnated someone or been pregnant. Stress and coping framework should be considered. Bullying prevention should provide youth with several healthy coping strategies for reducing sexually-risky behaviors. Community-based and school-based violence prevention programs need to consider sexual risk outcomes associated with involvement in bullying.
authors.affiliation: School of Social Work, Wayne State University, 5447 Woodward Avenue, Detroit, MI, 48202, USA. fl4684@wayne.edu.|Department of Social Welfare, Sungkyunkwan University, 25-2 Sungkyunkwan-ro, Jongro-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea. fl4684@wayne.edu.
authors.forename: Jun Sung
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Hong
authors.affiliation: School of Social Service Administration, The University of Chicago, 969 East 60th Street, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA.
authors.forename: Dexter R
authors.initials: DR
authors.lastname: Voisin
authors.affiliation: Social Justice and Criminology, Delta State University, 1003 West Sunflower Rd., Cleveland, MS, 38733, USA.
authors.forename: Sujung
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Cho
authors.affiliation: Department of Educational Psychology, Child Development Division, University of Illinois, 220A Education, 1310 S. Sixth Street, Champaign, IL, 61820-6925, USA.
authors.forename: Dorothy L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Espelage
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior; D001741:Black or African American / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D000367:Age Factors; D058445:Bullying / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D002641:Chicago; D002648:Child; D017280:Condoms / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D019548:Crime Victims / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011247:Pregnancy; D049168:Pregnancy, Unplanned / Q000208:ethnology; D012309:Risk-Taking; D012723:Sex; D012737:Sex Factors; D012725:Sexual Behavior / Q000208:ethnology*; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000208:ethnology; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000208:ethnology; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: African Americans; Bullying; Sexually-risky behaviors; Violence; Youth