Anabolic-Androgenic Steroid Use and other Adolescent Problem Behaviors

Rethinking the Male Athlete Assumption

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2481982
AutoresKathleen E Miller (0000-0002-9561-9572, Research Institute on Addictions, University at Buffalo, SUNY, autor de correspondencia), Grace M Barnes (0000-0003-0153-5376, Research Institute on Addictions, University at Buffalo, SUNY), Donald F Sabo (D'Youville College), Merrill J Melnick (State University of New York College at Brockport), Michael P Farrell (University at Buffalo, SUNY), Michael Farrell (0000-0002-0634-9719, University at Buffalo, State University of New York)
Año2002
Volumen45
Número4
Páginas467-489
Fecha de publicación2002-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSociological Perspectives (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0731-1214 • E-ISSN: 1533-8673
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1525/sop.2002.45.4.467
OpenAlexW2043385982
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas15
Referencias citadas42

Based on a national sample of over 16,000 public and private high school students (the 1997 Youth Risk Behavior Survey), we used logistic regression analysis to examine relationships among anabolicandrogenic steroid use and other problem behaviors for female and male athletes and nonathletes. After controlling for age, race/ethnicity, parental educational attainment, urbanicity, and recent exercise, users had significantly greater odds of engaging in other illicit drug, alcohol, and tobacco use, fighting, suicide attempts, sexual risk taking, vehicular risk taking, and pathogenic weight loss behavior, suggesting that steroid use is part of Jessor's problem behavior syndrome for adolescents. Despite the stereotypical images of the male athlete user, both nonathlete and female users also faced elevated risks of multiple drug use and other health-compromising behavior. Thus this study rejects the view of steroid use as merely a logical extension of the male athletic cultural imperative

Anabolic steroid · Anabolism · Athletes · Developmental psychology · Educational attainment · Environmental health · Ethnic group · Injury prevention · Logistic regression · Odds · Physical therapy · Poison control · Steroid use · Youth Risk Behavior Survey · Behavioral Health and Interventions · Clinical Psychology · Demography · Doping in Sports · Hormonal and reproductive studies · Medicine · Psychology · Internal Medicine