Future Orientation as a Cross-Cutting Protective Factor Against Multiple Forms of Violence - 22/07/21

Doi : 10.1016/j.jpeds.2021.05.019

Susheel K. Khetarpal, BS ^1,^⁎ , Nicholas Szoko, MD ⁴, Maya I. Ragavan, MD, MS, MPH ^1,², Alison J. Culyba, MD, PhD, MPH ^1,³
¹ Department of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA
² Division of General Academic Pediatrics, UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
³ Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
⁴ UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

^∗Reprint requests: Susheel K. Khetarpal, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 3550 Terrace St, Pittsburgh, PA 15213University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine3550 Terrace StPittsburghPA15213

Abstract

Among 9th-to 12th-grade students who completed an anonymous health risk and protective behavior survey (n = 2346), positive future orientation was significantly and inversely associated with multiple forms of interpersonal violence including youth, community, and sexual/relationship violence. Designing interventions to promote future orientation holds promise as a cross-cutting violence prevention strategy.

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Keywords : adolescent, future orientation, interpersonal violence, violence perpetration, violence victimization

Abbreviations : ARA, CDC, YRBS

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Funding and administrative support for S.K.‘s time and effort was provided by the University of Pittsburgh Clinical Scientist Training Program and the Clinical and Translational Science Institute (National Institutes of Health UL1TR001857). This study was additionally supported in part by the following grants: KL2TR001856 (to M.R.), K23HD098277-01 (PI: A.C.) as well as funding from The Heinz Endowments and The Grable Foundation. The funders had no role in the design and conduct of the study, collection, management, analysis, and interpretation of the data, and preparation, review, or approval of the manuscript, and decision to submit the manuscript for publication. The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

Portions of this study were presented at the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine meeting, March 10-12, 2021 (virtual); and at the Pediatric Academic Societies annual meeting, April 30-May 4, 2021 (virtual).