PMID: 9193237Jun 1, 1997Paper

Fears and other suspected risk factors for carrying lethal weapons among urban youths of middle-school age

Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
A ArriaJ C Anthony

Abstract

To estimate the strength of a suspected causal association between fearfulness and carrying a lethal weapon among urban middle-school students, while holding constant other suspected risk factors. A prospective study of an epidemiological sample assessed at baseline in 1992 and 1 year later, with relative risk estimates derived from the conditional form of the multiple logistic regression model used to hold constant alternative explanatory variables. An urban environment in the mid-Atlantic region of the United States. An epidemiological sample of 1131 youths enrolled in public middle schools. Carrying a lethal weapon for protection or defense during a 1-year observation interval after the baseline assessment of fears and other suspected risk factors. Of the 1131 youths, 194 (17%) reported carrying a lethal weapon for protection or defense during the 1-year interval of follow-up observation after baseline; 937 youths (83%) reported that they had not carried a lethal weapon for any reason. Self-reported fears, deviant peer affiliation, and worrying were associated with risk of starting to carry a weapon. For youths with the lowest worrying scores, the lowest neighborhood danger scores, and the least affiliation with deviant peer...Continue Reading

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