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Adolescent Girls' Alcohol Use as a Risk Factor for Relationship Violence
Author(s) -
Buzy Wendy Marsh,
McDonald Renee,
Jouriles Ernest N.,
Swank Paul R.,
Rosenfield David,
Shimek Jennifer S.,
CorbittShindler Deborah
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
journal of research on adolescence
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.342
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1532-7795
pISSN - 1050-8392
DOI - 10.1111/j.1532-7795.2004.00082.x
Subject(s) - psychology , situational ethics , sexual coercion , developmental psychology , clinical psychology , coercion (linguistics) , injury prevention , sexual violence , poison control , human factors and ergonomics , social psychology , medicine , medical emergency , linguistics , philosophy , criminology
This research examined the relation between female adolescents' general alcohol use and their experience of relationship violence. This relation was examined both cross‐sectionally and longitudinally, controlling for the proximal (i.e., situational) effects of alcohol use. One hundred and six female high school students reported on their experiences of physical violence and sexual coercion by boyfriends, general patterns of alcohol use, victimization experiences while drinking, and hypothesized covariates including demographic and relationship variables and illicit drug use. Variables were assessed at 2 time points 4 months apart. Results indicated that general alcohol use was related to victimization both cross‐sectionally and longitudinally, but different findings emerged for different forms of victimization (physical‐only victimization vs. both physical and sexual victimization).