@article{ref1,
title="Exposure to violence across multiple contexts and health risk behaviours in South African adolescents: the moderating role of emotion dysregulation",
journal="Psychology and Health",
year="2019",
author="Sui, Xincheng and Massar, Karlijn and Kessels, Loes T. E. and Reddy, Priscilla S. and Ruiter, Robert A. C. and Sanders-Phillips, Kathy",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="1-19",
abstract="<b>Objective:</b> The association between violence exposure and health risk behaviours in South African adolescents, and the moderating role of emotion dysregulation were investigated. <b>Design:</b> A multi-ethnic sample of adolescents (<i>N</i> = 925: boy: 47.3%, girl: 52.7%, <i>M</i> age = 16 years, <i>SD</i> = 1.54) completed a survey. <b>Main outcome measures:</b> Violence exposure across different contexts (home-, school-, community-, political victimisation), emotion dysregulation (inability to regulate sadness and anger) and a composite measure of health risk behaviours (smoking, substance use, risky sexual behaviour) were examined. <b>Results:</b> Boys reported more risk behaviours than girls, <i>t</i> (844) = 5.25, <i>p</i> < 0.001. Direct community victimisation was a predictor for boys' risk behaviours, <i>B</i> = 0.22, <i>p</i> < 0.001. Indirect school victimisation and direct community victimisation were predictors for girls' risk behaviours, <i>B</i>'s = 0.19, <i>p'</i>s < 0.01. Girls reported higher emotion dysregulation than boys, <i>t</i> (748) = -2.95, <i>p</i> < 0.01. Only for girls, emotion dysregulation moderated the associations of indirect home victimisation, <i>B</i> = 16, <i>p</i> < 0.01, and direct community victimisation, <i>B</i> = 15, <i>p</i> < 0.05, with risk behaviours. <b>Conclusion:</b> Interventions may target emotion regulation skills, particularly for girls, to enhance resilience to the negative effects of violence on behaviours.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0887-0446",
doi="10.1080/08870446.2019.1637521",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08870446.2019.1637521"
}