Skara Silvana, Pokhrel Pallav, Weiner Michelle D, Sun Ping, Dent Clyde W, Sussman Steve
Department of Preventive Medicine, Institute of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA.
Addict Behav. 2008 Dec;33(12):1507-15. doi: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2008.05.014. Epub 2008 Jun 17.
The present study investigated the longitudinal relationships between physical and relational aggression and later drug use, as moderated by gender. Self-reported data were gathered from 2064 high school students at pretest and 1-year post-test to test the hypotheses that (1) males would engage in more physical aggression than females, whereas females would engage in more relational aggression than males; and (2) physical aggression would be a stronger drug use predictor for males and relational aggression a stronger predictor for females. Results indicated that males reported engaging in more physical aggression than females at baseline; however, females and males reported engaging in similar rates of relational aggression. After controlling for relational aggression, baseline drug use, and demographic variables, physical aggression at baseline was found to predict alcohol use 1-year later for males but not for females. After controlling for physical aggression, baseline drug use, and demographic variables, relational aggression was found to predict cigarette use and marijuana use for females but not for males. However, relational aggression was found to predict later alcohol and hard drug equally across gender. These findings suggest that both physical and relational aggression are predictive of subsequent drug use and have important implications for violence and drug use prevention intervention efforts.
本研究调查了身体攻击和关系攻击与后期药物使用之间的纵向关系，并探讨了性别在其中的调节作用。通过对2064名高中生在预测试和测试后1年进行自我报告数据收集，以检验以下假设：（1）男性比女性更倾向于进行身体攻击，而女性比男性更倾向于进行关系攻击；（2）身体攻击对男性药物使用的预测作用更强，而关系攻击对女性药物使用的预测作用更强。结果表明，在基线时，男性报告的身体攻击行为比女性更多；然而，女性和男性报告的关系攻击发生率相似。在控制了关系攻击、基线药物使用和人口统计学变量后，发现基线时的身体攻击行为可预测男性1年后的酒精使用情况，但对女性则不然。在控制了身体攻击、基线药物使用和人口统计学变量后，发现关系攻击可预测女性的香烟使用和大麻使用情况，但对男性则不然。然而，发现关系攻击在不同性别中对后期酒精和硬性毒品的预测作用相同。这些发现表明，身体攻击和关系攻击都可预测随后的药物使用情况，并且对预防暴力和药物使用的干预措施具有重要意义。
