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Journal Article
Romantic Attraction and Substance Use in 15-Year-Old Adolescents from Eight European Countries
2019
Overview
Sexual minority youth are at higher risk of substance use than heterosexual youth. However, most evidence in this area is from North America, and it is unclear whether the findings can be generalized to other cultures and countries. In this investigation, we used data from the 2014 Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) study to compare substance use in same- and both-gender attracted 15-year-old adolescents from eight European countries (n = 14,545) to that of their peers who reported opposite-gender attraction or have not been romantically attracted to anyone. Both-gender attracted, and to a lesser extent, same-gender attracted adolescents were significantly more likely to smoke cigarettes, consume alcohol, get drunk and use cannabis, or be involved in multiple substance use in the last 30 days compared to their opposite-gender attracted peers. Those adolescents who have not been in love had significantly lower odds for substance use than all other youth. The pattern of results remained the same after adjusting for country, gender and family affluence. These findings are compatible with the minority stress and romantic stress theories. They suggest that sexual minority stigma (and love on its own) may contribute to higher substance use among adolescents in European countries.
Publisher
MDPI AG,MDPI
Subject
/ Alcohol
/ Alcohol Drinking - epidemiology
/ Alcohol Drinking - psychology
/ Drug use
/ Female
/ Gender
/ Girls
/ Humans
/ Love
/ Male
/ Marijuana Smoking - epidemiology
/ Marijuana Smoking - psychology
/ Sexual and Gender Minorities - psychology
/ Sexual and Gender Minorities - statistics & numerical data
/ Sexual Behavior - psychology
/ Smoking
/ Stigma
/ Stress
/ Studies
/ Substance-Related Disorders - epidemiology
/ Substance-Related Disorders - psychology
/ Tobacco
