| Gun carrying by high school students in Boston, MA: Does overestimation of peer gun carrying matter? | |
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PMID: 21146203 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher |
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This paper investigates: (1) whether high school students overestimate gun carrying by their peers, and (2) whether those students who overestimate peer gun carrying are more likely to carry firearms. Data come from a randomly sampled survey conducted in 2008 of over 1700 high school students in Boston, MA. Over 5% of students reported carrying a gun, 9% of boys and 2% of girls. Students substantially overestimated the percentage of their peers who carried guns; the likelihood that a respondent carried a gun was strongly associated with their perception of the level of peer gun carrying. Most respondents believed it was easier for other youth to obtain guns than it was for them. Social marketing campaigns designed to lower young people's perceptions about the prevalence of peer gun carrying may be a promising strategy for reducing actual gun carrying among youth. |
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David Hemenway; Mary Vriniotis; Renee M Johnson; Matthew Miller; Deborah Azrael |
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Type: JOURNAL ARTICLE Date: 2010-12-9 |
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Title: Journal of adolescence Volume: - ISSN: 1095-9254 ISO Abbreviation: - Publication Date: 2010 Dec |
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Created Date: 2010-12-14 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 7808986 Medline TA: J Adolesc Country: - |
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Languages: ENG Pagination: - Citation Subset: - |
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Copyright © 2010. Published by Elsevier Ltd. |
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Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard Injury Control Research Center, 677 Huntington Avenue, 3rd Fl., Boston, MA 02115, United States. |
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