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Typology of Violence Against Self and Others and Its Associations With Drinking and Other Drug Use Among High School Students in a U.S. General Population Survey

NCJ Number
241552
Journal
Journal of Child & Adolescent Substance Abuse Volume: 21 Issue: 4 Dated: September - October 2012 Pages: 349-366
Author(s)
Thomas C. Harford; Hsiao-Ye Yi; Robert C. Freeman
Date Published
September 2012
Length
18 pages
Annotation
This study examined associations between binge drinking and other substance use and perpetration of violence against self and others.
Abstract
This study examines associations between binge drinking and other substance use and perpetration of violence against self and others. Data were pooled from the 2003, 2005, and 2007 Youth Risk Behavior Surveys, yielding a sample of 43,172 U.S. high school students. A typology was constructed to reflect four categories of behaviors: other-directed violence only, self-directed violence only, combined other- and self-directed violence, and no violence. Results from multinomial logistic regressions show that the frequency of binge drinking and other substance use were significant risk factors for each of the violence categories relative to no violence. However, the strengths of these associations varied across the violence categories. Abstract published by arrangement with Taylor and Francis.