College of Health Solutions, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ 85004, USA.
Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2023 Feb 25;20(5):4171. doi: 10.3390/ijerph20054171.
Racial and ethnic disparities in health outcomes have been consistently documented in the health literature. Until recently, many studies have evidenced associations between prejudice and health behaviors using cross-sectional data. However, studies assessing the link between school prejudice and health behaviors from adolescence to adulthood are limited.
To address this gap, we use data from Waves I, II, and III of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (1994-2002) to examine how perceptions of school prejudice over time influence cigarette smoking, alcohol use, and marijuana use from adolescence to emerging adulthood. We also examine variation across race and ethnicity.
Results indicate that school prejudice in adolescence (Wave I) is associated with higher cigarette use, alcohol use, and marijuana use in later adolescence (Wave II). White and Asian adolescents who perceived school prejudice were more likely to use alcohol, while Hispanic adolescents were more likely to use marijuana.
Efforts to reduce school prejudice among adolescents may have implications in reducing substance use.
健康文献中一直有记录表明健康结果存在种族和民族差异。直到最近，许多研究使用横断面数据证明了偏见与健康行为之间的关联。然而，从青少年到成年评估学校偏见与健康行为之间联系的研究有限。
为了解决这一差距，我们使用了国家青少年到成人健康纵向研究（1994-2002 年）的第 I 波、第 II 波和第 III 波的数据，以考察随着时间的推移，对学校偏见的看法如何影响青少年到成年早期的吸烟、饮酒和大麻使用。我们还研究了不同种族和民族之间的差异。
结果表明，青少年时期（第 I 波）的学校偏见与后期青少年时期（第 II 波）的吸烟、饮酒和大麻使用较多有关。认为学校存在偏见的白人和亚裔青少年更有可能饮酒，而西班牙裔青少年更有可能使用大麻。
减少青少年学校偏见的努力可能对减少物质使用有影响。
