A dual pathway model of steroid use among adolescent boys: Results from a nationally representative sample.
Year: 2013
Type: article
Abstract: Anabolic-androgenic steroid (AAS) use is associated with medical and psychiatric complications; however, despite the identification of psychosocial correlates of AAS use, comprehensive models have rarely been assessed. Thus, AAS use as a function of self-perceived weight status, victimization, and depressive symptoms was examined via simultaneous multiple mediation with non-parametric bootstrapping. Data from the 2009 National Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) was utilized. The target population consisted of all public, Catholic, and other private school students in grades 9 through 12 in the United States. The sample comprised 8,065 adolescent high school males. The global and individual indirect effects of self-perceived underweight status to AAS use through depressive symptoms and victimization were significant. However, the victimization pathway was revealed to be stronger in magnitude than the depressive pathway. Depressive symptoms and victimization are two pathways in which self-perceived underweight status predicts AAS use among adolescent boys.
Source: Psychology of Men & Masculinity
DOI: 10.1037/a0032914
Author: Aaron J. Blashill
Institutions: Harvard University, Massachusetts General Hospital
Language: English
Topic: Doping in Sports
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2150545985