Predictive Variables of Violent Behavior in Adolescent Males

Salts, Connie J.; Lindholm, Byron W.; Goddard, H. Wallace; Duncan, Stephen F.

doi:10.1177/0044118x95026003005

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“…Because boys are far more prone to both general delinquency and violence, [15][16][17] studies of what leads to either behavior have often focused solely on boys or failed to ask how the antecedents of delinquency or violence may vary by sex. 12,18 However, recent evidence suggests that teenaged girls are as likely as teenaged boys to hit family members and that girls with violent or deviant behavior are differentially vulnerable to family problems and poor mental health. 9,19 These findings suggest the need for further examination of sex differences in violence predictors.…”

Section: Early Predictors Of Adolescent Violencementioning

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Early predictors of adolescent violence

Ellickson

McGuigan²

2000

Am J Public Health

188

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OBJECTIVES: This study sought to identify early predictors of adolescent violence and to assess whether they vary by sex and across different types and levels of violence. METHODS: Data from a 5-year longitudinal self-report survey of more than 4300 high school seniors and dropouts from California and Oregon were used to regress measures of relational, predatory, and overall violence on predictors measured 5 years earlier. RESULTS: Deviant behavior in grade 7, poor grades, and weak bonds with middle school predicted violent behavior 5 years later. Attending a middle school with comparatively high levels of cigarette and marijuana use was also linked with subsequent violence. Early drug use and peer drug use predicted increased levels of predatory violence but not its simple occurrence. Girls with low self-esteem during early adolescence were more likely to hit others later on; boys who attended multiple elementary schools were also more likely to engage in relational violence. CONCLUSIONS: Violence prevention programs for younger adolescents should include efforts to prevent or reduce troublesome behavior in school and poor academic performance. Adolescent girls may also profit from efforts to raise self-esteem; adolescent boys may need extra training in resisting influences that encourage deviant behavior. Programs aimed at preventing drug use may yield an added violence-reduction bonus.

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Section: Early Predictors Of Adolescent Violencementioning

confidence: 99%

Early predictors of adolescent violence

Ellickson

McGuigan²

2000

Am J Public Health

188

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“…Once youths have entered this stage, the consequences may be numerous. These youths are at higher risk for later psychological and behavioral problems including depression and suicidal thoughts and attempts, 1° risky sexual behaviors, 11 increased delinquent and criminal behavior, 1°, 12 and violent behavior 13 The increased vulnerability of some youths to the negative consequences of initial substance use can be attributed in part to their exposure to negative social factors. Although other aspects including personality are important, 14 previously existing social conditions increase the risk that experimental use will lead to a general pattern of use and other negative outcomes.…”

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An analysis of stressors and co-morbid mental health problems that contribute to youths' paths to substance-specific services

Johnson

Stiffman

Hadley-Ives

et al. 2001

The Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research

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Substance-specific services are tailored to address the inappropriate use of chemicals such as alcohol and marijuana. Unfortunately, few teens ever access such need-based services. This article explores the paths to substance-specific service use in a sample of urban adolescents who are public service sector users: a direct path from substance misuse and an indirect path from general mental health service use. Results indicate that even though a significant percentage of youths frequently consume substances and display negative use-related behaviors, few actually received substance-specific services. Contributors to the substance misuse path included youths' family substance dependence and environmental stressors. Contributors to the mental health services path were comorbid depression and substance misuse.

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“…11, NOS. 3-4, 1999 Brought to you by | University of Glasgow Library Authenticated Download Date | 6/29/15 7:27 PM \ et Salts et al, 1995;Callichia et al, 1993;Saner & Ellickson, 1996). Evidence indicates that although peers may not directly cause youth to commit violence, the presence of peers who have negative value systems, delinquent behaviors, and gang affiliations increase the likelihood that some youth will display violent behaviors (Elliot, 1994;Felson et al, 1994;Scheidlinger, 1995).…”

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The Social Context of Youth Violence: A Study of African American Youth

Johnson¹

1999

International Journal of Adolescent Medicine and Health

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This paper examines youth violence from a social systems perspective. Youth from a high school in the Midwestern United States were interviewed to determine if the positioning of factors within social domains could determine the relative influence of the factor on violence. Four social systems were assessed: the psychosocial, the microsocial, the mesosocial, and the macrosocial. Results indicated that factors that exist at the psychosocial level had more influence on violence, however factors at other levels specifically gender socialization and traumatic exposures maintained strong significant relationships with violence when other social domains were considered. The implications of these findings for future research on youth violence are discussed.

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Predictive Variables of Violent Behavior in Adolescent Males

Cited by 26 publications

References 34 publications

Early predictors of adolescent violence

Early predictors of adolescent violence

An analysis of stressors and co-morbid mental health problems that contribute to youths' paths to substance-specific services

The Social Context of Youth Violence: A Study of African American Youth

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