Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Unit, Department of Neuroscience, Uppsala University, 751 85, Uppsala, Sweden.
Regional Centre for Child and Youth Mental Health and Child Welfare, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsö, Norway.
Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2018 Apr;27(4):493-500. doi: 10.1007/s00787-017-1097-5. Epub 2017 Dec 20.
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.
社区暴力暴露对儿童和青少年心理健康的负面影响已有充分记录，社区暴力暴露与许多内化和外化症状都有关联。因此，我们的目的是调查社区暴力暴露与物质滥用之间的跨文化和性别差异。在三个不同的国家（捷克共和国（N=4537）、俄罗斯（N=2377）和美国（N=3661）），我们对 10575 名 12-18 岁的青少年进行了一项自我报告调查。我们发现，在所有三个国家，随着暴力暴露严重程度的增加，物质使用和与之相关的问题行为都以相似的方式增加，而且这种关联没有性别特异性。结论是，尽管在跨文化和性别方面存在暴力暴露和物质使用水平的差异，但它们之间的关联模式既不受文化限制也不受性别限制。
