Severe dating violence and quality of life among South Carolina high school students

Coker, Ann L.; McKeown, Robert E.; Sanderson, Maureen; Davis, Keith E.; Valois, Robert F.; Huebner, E. Scott

doi:10.1016/s0749-3797(00)00227-0

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“…Of 5,414 adolescents sampled, 12% self-reported SDV as a victim or perpetrator in the past 12 months. Overall, results demonstrated that SDV and forcedsex are associated with poor mental and physical health, low LS, and adverse health behaviours such as suicide ideation/attempts in adolescent female victims and male perpetrators (Coker et al 2000). Related to these findings is the negative effect of peer victimization through bullying on adolescent LS.…”

Section: Victimizationmentioning

confidence: 83%

“…Further, increases in dating violence were found to contribute to increased posttraumatic stress, anxiety, depression, and dissociation. Similarly, Coker et al (2000) addressed the impact of severe dating violence (SDV) and forced-sex victimization and perpetration on adolescent LS. Of 5,414 adolescents sampled, 12% self-reported SDV as a victim or perpetrator in the past 12 months.…”

Section: Victimizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Youth Life Satisfaction: A Review of the Literature

2008

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A central construct within the positive psychology literature is life satisfaction. Whereas adult life satisfaction has been studied extensively, the life satisfaction of children and adolescents has only received attention more recently. This article provides a review of the extant research on youth life satisfaction. Empirical studies (n = 141) on life satisfaction among youth are reviewed. The review details how life satisfaction among youth relates to various other important emotional, social, and behavioural constructs. Evidenced by the review are the conditions that foster positive life satisfaction and the implications of positive life satisfaction among youth. Future directions in life satisfaction research among youth are briefly discussed.Keywords Life satisfaction Á Adolescent Á Children Á Subjective well-being Á Happiness Á Review Recently the burgeoning field of positive psychology has re-illuminated the need for psychology to address areas associated with optimal functioning and happiness. From the time of Aristotle (1925), the pursuit of happiness and the achievement of the 'good life' has been a major concern among philosophers and theologians, and was included as a foundational mission of psychology (Seligman 2002b;Seligman and Csikszentmihalyi 2000). Within the field of psychology the study of 'happiness' generally falls under investigations of subjective well-being (SWB) (see Diener 1984;Diener 1994;Diener et al. 1999, for reviews). The SWB construct is a tripartite category of phenomena, which includes: emotional responses (i.e. positive affect (e.g. joy, optimism) and negative affect (e.g. sadness, anger)), domain satisfactions (e.g. work satisfaction, relationship satisfaction), and global judgements of life satisfaction (LS) (Diener et al. 1999). In the research literature the components of SWB are often used interchangeably with each other and considered synonymous with term 'happiness' (Diener 1994;Seligman 2002a); despite that the term

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Youth Life Satisfaction: A Review of the Literature

2008

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“…All of these studies used anonymous or confidential questionnaires; none, to our knowledge, provided an explicit definition of AAS, and none cautioned respondents that AAS should not be confused with corticosteroids or sports supplements. Several additional studies (Coker et al, 2000;Durant et al, ,1999Grunbaum et al, 1998;Middleman et al, 1995;Miller et al, 2005;Zullig et al, 2001), utilized CDC data from individual regions; these studies by definition have the same flaws as the national CDC studies already discussed, and hence are omitted from Table 3. Overall, therefore, it would follow that most estimates of AAS use among high-school girls should be greatly inflated by false-positives.…”

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Anabolic steroid abuse among teenage girls: An illusory problem?

Kanayama

Boynes

Hudson

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Drug and Alcohol Dependence

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Background-Recent media reports have portrayed an alarming increase in apparent anabolicandrogenic steroid (AAS) use among American teenage girls; Congress even held hearings on the subject in June 2005. We questioned whether AAS use among teenage girls was as widespread as claimed.Methods-We reviewed four large national surveys and many smaller surveys examining the prevalence of AAS use among teenage girls. Virtually all of these surveys used anonymous questionnaires. We asked particularly whether the language of survey questions might generate falsepositive responses among girls who misinterpreted the term "steroid." We also reviewed data from other countries, together with results from the only recent study (to our knowledge) in which investigators personally interviewed female AAS users.Results-The surveys produced remarkably disparate findings, with the lifetime prevalence of AAS use estimated as high as 7.3% among ninth-grade girls in one study, but only 0.1% among teenage girls in several others. Upon examining the surveys reporting an elevated prevalence, it appeared that most used questions that failed to distinguish between anabolic steroids, corticosteroids, and over-the-counter supplements that respondents might confuse with "steroids." Other features in the phrasing of certain questions also seemed likely to further bias results in favor of false-positive responses.Conclusions-Many anonymous surveys, using imprecise questions, appear to have greatly overestimated the lifetime prevalence of AAS use among teenage girls; the true lifetime prevalence may well be as low as 0.1%. Future studies can test this impression by using a carefully phrased question regarding AAS use.

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“…Children experience a high frequency of violence from other children. Surveys suggest more than half of all children experience violence from a sibling in the course of a year (Goodwin & Roscoe, 1990;Roscoe, Goodwin, & Kennedy, 1987;Straus & Gelles, 1990;Straus, Gelles, & Steinmetz, 1980) and a quarter to a third from a non-sibling peer (Bennett & Fineran, 1998;Coker et al, 2000;Duncan, 1999;Finkelhor & Dziuba-Leatherman, 1994;Kilpatrick, Saunders, & Smith, 2002;Marcus, 2005;Singer et al, 1999).…”

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Kid's stuff: The nature and impact of peer and sibling violence on younger and older children

Finkelhor

Turner

Ormrod

2006

Child Abuse & Neglect

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Objective: It is widely presumed that when children are hit by peers or siblings, it is not as serious as similar acts between adults or older youth, which would be termed, "assaults" and "violent crimes". The goal of this study was to compare the violent peer and sibling episodes of younger children to those of older youth in terms of their seriousness and association with symptoms that might indicate traumatic effects. Method: The study collected reports of past year's violent victimizations and childhood symptoms in a national probability telephone sample of 2030 children and youth ages 2-17. The experiences of 10-17-year olds were obtained via self-reports and those of the 2-9-year olds from caregivers. Results: The younger children's peer and sibling victimizations were not less serious than the older youth on the dimensions of injury, being hit with an object that could cause injury or being victimized on multiple occasions. Younger children and older youth also had similar trauma symptom levels associated with both peer and sibling victimization. Conclusion: There was no basis in this study for presuming peer and sibling victimizations to be more benign when they involve younger children. The findings provide justification for being concerned about such peer and sibling violence in schools and families and for counting such victimizations in victimization inventories and clinical assessments.

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Severe dating violence and quality of life among South Carolina high school students

Cited by 302 publications

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Youth Life Satisfaction: A Review of the Literature

Youth Life Satisfaction: A Review of the Literature

Anabolic steroid abuse among teenage girls: An illusory problem?

Kid's stuff: The nature and impact of peer and sibling violence on younger and older children

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