Open AccessTime Horizons, Drug Use, and Risky Sex in Young Women from Poor Urban Areas
Author(s) -
JeeWon Cheong,
Jalie A. Tucker,
Susan D. Chandler
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
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Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.27
H-Index - 27
eISSN - 1664-2856
pISSN - 0939-5911
DOI - 10.1024/0939-5911/a000758
Subject(s) - disadvantaged , psychology , impulsivity , population , demography , discounting , developmental psychology , sociology , political science , law , finance , economics
Emerging adulthood is marked by elevated risk-taking, and young people living in disadvantaged urban areas experience disproportionately more negative outcomes. Using a sample of young African American women living in such communities, this cross-sectional observational study investigated the hypothesis that greater substance use and sexual risk-taking would be associated with present-dominated time perspectives and higher delay discounting.