TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2018//
TI  - Community violence exposure and substance use: cross-cultural and gender perspectives
JO  - European child and adolescent psychiatry
A1  - Löfving-Gupta, Sandra
A1  - Willebrand, Mimmie
A1  - Koposov, Roman
A1  - Blatný, Marek
A1  - Hrdlicka, Michal
A1  - Schwab-Stone, Mary E.
A1  - Ruchkin, Vladislav
SP  - 493
EP  - 500
VL  - 27
IS  - 4
N2  - The negative effects of community violence exposure on child and adolescent mental health are well documented and exposure to community violence has been linked both to a number of internalizing and externalizing symptoms. Our aim was, therefore, to investigate cross-cultural and gender differences in the relationship between community violence exposure and substance abuse. A self-report survey was conducted among 10,575, 12-18 year old adolescents in three different countries, Czech Republic (N = 4537), Russia (N = 2377) and US (N = 3661). We found that in all three countries both substance use and problem behavior associated with it increased similarly along with severity of violence exposure and this association was not gender-specific. It was concluded that in spite of the differences in the levels of violence exposure and substance use cross-culturally and by gender, the pattern of their association is neither culturally nor gender bound.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1018-8827
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00787-017-1097-5
ID  - ref1
ER  -