Sports-team participation and risk behaviors among US high school students: behavior-specific and sex-heterogeneous associations in the national YRBS, 2011–2023

Fa-liang Sun, Qing Liu

Sports-team participation is often regarded as a favorable adolescent context, but whether its associations are consistent across distinct risk behaviors and across sex remains unresolved. We conducted a repeated cross-sectional analysis of seven U. S. National Youth Risk Behavior Survey cycles (2011–2023; 110,409 records) using survey-weighted regression and marginal standardization. Participation in one or more…