Durant R H, Getts A G, Cadenhead C, Woods E R
Division of Adolescent/Young Adult Medicine, Children's Hospital, Boston, MA 02119, USA.
J Adolesc Health. 1995 Dec;17(6):376-80. doi: 10.1016/1054-139X(95)00030-V.
To test the hypothesis that adolescents who carry lethal weapons are more likely to engage in violent behavior than adolescents who do not carry weapons.
Cross-sectional Survey.
Black adolescents (N = 225) from a lower socioeconomic (SES) background living in or around nine Housing and Urban Development housing projects.
An anonymous questionnaire containing scales from the CDC Youth Risk Behavior Survey and Self-Reported Delinquency Questionnaire was administered. Data were analyzed with Spearman rho correlation coefficients (r), followed by partial correlation coefficients controlling for age and gender.
Thirty-five percent of males and 16% of females reported carrying a weapon during the previous 30 days. Frequency of weapon-carrying was correlated (r = .33, p < or = 0.0001). with the frequency of physical fights in the last month, but the relationship was stronger among males than females. Weapon-carrying was also associated (r = .20, p < or = 0.003) with frequency of receiving a serious injury during a fight and the frequency of attacking someone with a weapon with the idea of seriously hurting or killing them (r = .48, p < or = 0.0001). Although males were more likely to carry a hidden weapon than females, the frequency of weapon-carrying was more highly correlated with the frequency of carrying a hidden weapon by females (r = .63, p < or = 0.0001) than males (r = .49, p < or = 0.0001). Females who carried weapons were more likely than males to be involved in gang fights. Among males (r = .27, p < or = 0.008), frequency of weapon-carrying was correlated with frequency of attacking someone with whom they lived. This was not so among females (r = .02).
These data support the hypothesis that the lower SES black adolescents in this sample who carried weapons were more likely to engage in violent behaviors than those who did not carry weapons.
检验携带致命武器的青少年比未携带武器的青少年更有可能参与暴力行为这一假设。
横断面调查。
来自九个住房和城市发展部住房项目及其周边地区、社会经济地位较低的黑人青少年（N = 225）。
发放一份匿名问卷，其中包含来自疾病控制与预防中心青少年风险行为调查和自我报告犯罪问卷的量表。数据采用斯皮尔曼等级相关系数（r）进行分析，随后进行控制年龄和性别的偏相关系数分析。
35%的男性和16%的女性报告在过去30天内携带过武器。携带武器的频率与上个月肢体打架的频率相关（r = 0.33，p≤0.0001），但这种关系在男性中比在女性中更强。携带武器还与打架时受重伤的频率（r = 0.20，p≤0.003）以及带着严重伤害或杀死他人的意图用武器攻击他人的频率（r = 0.48，p≤0.0001）相关。虽然男性比女性更有可能携带隐藏武器，但携带武器的频率与女性携带隐藏武器的频率（r = 0.63，p≤0.0001）比与男性携带隐藏武器的频率（r = 0.49，p≤0.0001）的相关性更高。携带武器的女性比男性更有可能参与帮派打架。在男性中（r = 0.27，p≤0.008），携带武器的频率与攻击与其同住的人的频率相关。在女性中并非如此（r = 0.02）。
这些数据支持了这一假设，即该样本中社会经济地位较低的携带武器的黑人青少年比未携带武器的青少年更有可能参与暴力行为。
