性少数民族身份和风险酒精使用:侵略性行为的温和作用
Alexa Martin-Storey1, Zhenqiang Zhao2, Russell B Toomey3
1Département de Psychoéducation, Université de Sherbrooke, 150 Place Charles Le Moyne, Longueuil, QC, J4K 0A8, Canada. alexa.martin-storey@usherbrooke.ca.
Journal of youth and adolescence
|July 22, 2024
概括
侵略性行为与性少数群体青少年的酒精使用率较高有关. 这一发现凸显了侵略性行为如何加剧少数群体的应激暴露和一些年轻人的反应.
科学领域:
- 心理学 心理学 心理学
- 青少年健康 青少年健康
- 社会学 社会学 社会学
背景情况:
- 青少年的酒精使用对健康和福祉构成风险.
- 性少数群体的年轻人报告的酒精消费高于异性恋同龄人.
- 侵略性行为是一个关键的个体差异变量,在这个背景下进行探索.
研究的目的:
- 调查性少数群体青少年的攻击性行为和酒精使用之间的关联.
- 了解侵略性行为如何解释性少数群体年轻人中更高的酒精使用率.
- 为性少数群体青少年在饮酒方面的脆弱性提供新的理论见解.
主要方法:
- 利用了学生生活概况:态度和行为研究 (N=81,509) 的数据.
- 参与者是14-17岁的青少年.
- 数据包括自我报告的酒精使用,攻击性行为和性身份 (异性恋,主要是异性恋,双性恋,主要是同性恋,同性恋).
主要成果:
- 自称同性恋/女同性恋或大多数同性恋/女同性恋的青少年具有更高的攻击性行为,与具有类似的攻击性行为水平的异性恋同龄人相比,酒精使用量增加.
- 侵略性行为显著放大了大多数同性恋和同性恋身份与酒精使用之间的关系.
- 这种放大效应表明,潜在的机制将侵略性行为与少数群体的压力联系在一起.
结论:
- 在一些性少数群体青少年中观察到的高酒精使用中,侵略性行为起着至关重要的作用.
- 需要进一步的研究来探索侵略性行为如何加剧少数群体应激暴露和性少数群体青年特定子组的反应.
- 这些发现强调了考虑个人差异的重要性,比如在理解青少年酒精使用差异时考虑侵略性行为.
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