Full Longitudinal Mediation Effects between Twins' Substance Use and Delinquency

This study aims to explore the longitudinal mediation effects of college students’ perceived task value (PTV) between perceived teacher enthusiasm (PTE) and class-related boredom (CB). We conducted a longitudinal survey among college students from five colleges at the second (T1), sixth (T2), tenth (T3), and fourteenth week (T4) in a semester, and overall 1,371 students completed all the measurements. In the survey, a battery of questionnaires was used to measure the students’ PTE, perception of task difficulty, perception of task value, and CB. At T1, boredom proneness was measured as a control variable. Analysis of the longitudinal data showed that after controlling for the effects of boredom proneness and perceived task difficulty, students’ PTE was a significant predictor of CB, and students’ PTV played a significant mediating role in this causation relationship. The study supported the importance of the control-value theory in explaining the mitigating effect of students’ PTE on CB, especially highlighting the role of PTV.

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Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and Gang Involvement Among Juvenile Offenders: Assessing the Mediation Effects of Substance Use and Temperament Deficits

Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice ◽

10.1177/1541204019854799 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 18 (1) ◽

pp. 24-53 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Kevin T. Wolff ◽

Michael T. Baglivio ◽

Hannah J. Klein ◽

Alex R. Piquero ◽

Matt DeLisi ◽

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Keyword(s):

Substance Use ◽

Juvenile Offenders ◽

Adverse Childhood Experiences ◽

Structural Equation ◽

Equation Modeling ◽

Childhood Experiences ◽

Mediation Effects ◽

Gang Involvement ◽

Adverse Childhood

A growing body of research has demonstrated the deleterious effects of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). Less understood is the role of ACEs in gang involvement among juvenile offenders. The current longitudinal study employs a sample of 104,267 juvenile offenders (mean age of 16, 76% male, 46% Black non-Hispanic, 15.7% Hispanic) to examine the effect of ACE exposure on two different measures of gang involvement by age 18. We use structural equation modeling to test whether higher ACE exposure at Time 1 predicts gang involvement and whether current substance use and/or difficult temperament mediates the ACE-gang involvement relationship. Results indicate ACE exposure at Time 1 predicts gang involvement by age 18, but that much of the effect of ACEs on later gang involvement can be explained by their impact on current substance abuse and difficult temperament. Implications for juvenile justice systems are discussed.

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Parenting and Adolescent Self-Regulation Mediate Between Family Socioeconomic Status and Adolescent Adjustment

The Journal of Early Adolescence ◽

10.1177/0272431615611253 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 37 (4) ◽

pp. 502-524 ◽

Cited By ~ 16

Author(s):

Julee P. Farley ◽

Jungmeen Kim-Spoon

Keyword(s):

Socioeconomic Status ◽

Substance Use ◽

Self Regulation ◽

Parental Knowledge ◽

Self Control ◽

Adolescent Adjustment ◽

Equation Modeling ◽

Mediation Effects ◽

Family Stress Model ◽

Family Socioeconomic Status

Using two waves of longitudinal data, we utilized the family stress model of economic hardship to test whether family socioeconomic status is related to adolescent adjustment (substance use and academic achievement) through parental knowledge and adolescent self-regulation (behavioral self-control and delay discounting). Participants included 220 adolescent (55% male, [Formula: see text]age = 13 years at Wave 1, [Formula: see text]age = 15 years at Wave 2) and primary caregiver dyads. Results of Structural Equation Modeling revealed significant three-path mediation effects such that low family socioeconomic status at Wave 1 is associated with low parental knowledge at Wave 1, which in turn was related to low academic performance and high substance use at Wave 2 mediated through low adolescent behavioral self-control at Wave 2. The results illustrate how parental knowledge, influenced by family economic status, may play an important role in the development of adolescent behavioral self-control and adjustment.

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