TY - JOUR
T1 - Adolescents carrying handguns and taking them to school
T2 - Psychosocial correlates among public school students in Illinois
AU - Williams, Sunyna S.
AU - Mulhall, Peter F.
AU - Reis, Janet S.
AU - DeVille, John O.
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported in part by a State Incentive Grant from the U.S. Center for Substance Abuse Prevention to the Illinois Department of Human Services and by the Illinois Bureau of Substance Abuse Prevention. Other manuscripts have been prepared from the larger dataset used in this article, but with entirely different foci and analyses. We thank Bridget C. Lavin for her assistance with the literature review.
Copyright:
Copyright 2017 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2002/10
Y1 - 2002/10
N2 - The current study sought to examine psychosocial correlates of adolescents carrying a handgun and taking a handgun to school. Survey participants were approximately 22,000 6th, 8th, and 10th grade public school students from throughout Illinois. Results showed that the strongest correlates of handgun carrying behaviours were variables directly associated with handguns and violence, both behaviours and beliefs, as well as delinquency variables. These findings have many implications for intervention by parents, schools, and policy makers to reduce the incidence of adolescent handgun carrying and taking a handgun to school.
AB - The current study sought to examine psychosocial correlates of adolescents carrying a handgun and taking a handgun to school. Survey participants were approximately 22,000 6th, 8th, and 10th grade public school students from throughout Illinois. Results showed that the strongest correlates of handgun carrying behaviours were variables directly associated with handguns and violence, both behaviours and beliefs, as well as delinquency variables. These findings have many implications for intervention by parents, schools, and policy makers to reduce the incidence of adolescent handgun carrying and taking a handgun to school.
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U2 - 10.1006/jado.2002.0499
DO - 10.1006/jado.2002.0499
M3 - Article
C2 - 12234560
AN - SCOPUS:0036782186
SN - 0140-1971
VL - 25
SP - 551
EP - 567
JO - Journal of Adolescence
JF - Journal of Adolescence
IS - 5
ER -