Time Horizons, Drug Use, and Risky Sex in Young Women from Poor Urban Areas | Zendy

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Time 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 -

sucht - zeitschrift für wissenschaft und praxis / journal of addiction research and practice

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.

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