Shauna Carlisle Publishes on Racial Bullying and Adolescent Substance Abuse

IAS faculty member Shauna Carlisle published an article co-authored with Nursing and Health Studies faculty member Andrea Stone, , in the Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse. The study explores the relationship between race and racial bullying and youth substance use in school-attending young adolescents in the United States. It finds that racial bully perpetrators were most likely to have used cigarettes, alcohol, and marijuana, followed by youth in the mixed victim/perpetrator group. Differences appear to exist in relation to racial bullying experience and substance across racial/ethnic group among youth in grades 7-10. The study also discusses implications of these findings for prevention and educational professionals.