scholarly journals The Relative Contributions of Parental and Sibling Substance Use to Adolescent Tobacco, Alcohol, and other Drug Use

2005 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 869-883 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abigail A. Fagan ◽  
Jake M. Najman
Keyword(s):  
Substance Use ◽  
Alcohol Use ◽  
Drug Use ◽  
Sibling Relationships ◽  
Intervention Programs ◽  
Adolescent Substance Use ◽  
Shared Environment ◽  
Related Factors ◽  
Adolescent Substance ◽  
The Relationship

While research demonstrates that parental tobacco and alcohol use increases the likelihood of children's substance use, it is unclear whether or not sibling use has a greater, weaker, or similar effect. Based upon self-reported information from Australian adolescents, their siblings and parents, this investigation examines the association between siblings' tobacco and alcohol use. The relationship is consistent, moderately strong, and remains significant when controlling for a number of family-related factors, indicating that the shared environment cannot fully explain the extent of similarity in siblings' behaviors. In addition, sibling substance use has a greater effect on adolescent substance use than does smoking or drinking by parents. These findings indicate the need to include siblings and information regarding sibling relationships in prevention and intervention programs.

The relation of adolescent substance use to young adult autonomy, positive activity involvement, and perceived competence

1999 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 915-932 ◽  
Author(s):  
LAURIE CHASSIN ◽  
STEVEN C. PITTS ◽  
CHRISTIAN DELUCIA
Keyword(s):  
Substance Use ◽  
Young Adult ◽  
Alcohol Use ◽  
Drug Use ◽  
Young Adulthood ◽  
Heavy Drinking ◽  
Perceived Competence ◽  
Adolescent Substance Use ◽  
Adolescent Substance ◽  
Activity Involvement

The current paper uses data from a longitudinal study of a high-risk sample to test the relation between adolescent alcohol and drug use and later young adult autonomy, positive activity involvement, and perceived competence. Participants (children of alcoholics and demographically matched controls) were assessed in three annual interviews in adolescence (mean age: 12.7 years at Time 1) and then again 5–7 years later, in young adulthood (median age: 20 years). Path analyses and latent growth curve models tested the effects of adolescent substance use on both self-reported and collateral-reported outcomes, controlling for correlated risk factors (parental alcoholism, adolescent psychopathology, and parental support), preexisting levels of the outcome, and concurrent young adult substance use. Results showed that adolescent drug use had a significant, unique negative effect on later autonomy and perceived competence. Alcohol use effects were more complex. Adolescent heavy drinking was associated with less positive adult outcomes, but more so in collateral reports than in self-reported outcomes. Moreover, young adult heavy drinking was either uncorrelated with or positively correlated with higher levels of perceived competence, suggesting different developmental significance of alcohol use in adolescence than in young adulthood.

scholarly journals The role of pubertal timing in the link between family history of alcohol use disorder and late adolescent substance use

2020 ◽  
Vol 210 ◽  
pp. 107955
Author(s):  
Alexander S. Weigard ◽  
Jillian E. Hardee ◽  
Robert A. Zucker ◽  
Mary M. Heitzeg ◽  
Adriene M. Beltz
Keyword(s):  
Substance Use ◽  
Family History ◽  
Alcohol Use ◽  
Alcohol Use Disorder ◽  
Pubertal Timing ◽  
Adolescent Substance Use ◽  
Late Adolescent ◽  
Adolescent Substance ◽  
History Of

Concurrent Childhood Experiences Impact Underage Substance Use

2021 ◽  
pp. 107755952110124
Author(s):  
Eliza Broadbent ◽  
Jacob Read Miller ◽  
Aaron Cheung ◽  
Elizabeth Mathews Rollins ◽  
Lynneth Kirsten B. Novilla ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Substance Use ◽  
Alcohol Use ◽  
Tobacco Use ◽  
Early Initiation ◽  
Adolescent Substance Use ◽  
Late Adolescent ◽  
Childhood Experiences ◽  
Adolescent Substance ◽  
The Cross

Adverse and advantageous childhood experiences (ACEs and counter-ACEs) during adolescence are understudied. This study examined how childhood experiences affect youth tobacco/alcohol use. Participants included 489 U.S. adolescents (baseline 10–13 years; 51% female) from the first five waves of the Flourishing Families Project. Results of the cross-lagged model showed ACEs were predictive of early tobacco use only. Counter-ACEs in wave two and wave three predicted, respectively, decreased tobacco and decreased alcohol use in the following wave. Counter-ACEs were also correlated with reduced alcohol and tobacco use in later waves. These findings indicate the salience of counter-ACEs over ACEs in persistent and late adolescent substance use, though ACEs may be important to consider to prevent very early initiation of tobacco.

scholarly journals Public or Private Religiosity: Which Is Protective for Adolescent Substance Use and by What Pathways?

2016 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 228-253 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher P. Salas-Wright ◽  
Michael G. Vaughn ◽  
Brandy R. Maynard ◽  
Trenette T. Clark ◽  
Susanna Snyder
Keyword(s):  
Substance Use ◽  
Sensation Seeking ◽  
Negative Binomial ◽  
Negative Binomial Regression ◽  
National Sample ◽  
Adolescent Substance Use ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Adolescent Substance ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Private Religiosity

While it is well understood that adolescent religiosity is associated with the use and abuse of licit and illicit substances, few studies have revealed the pathways through which religiosity buffers youth against involvement in such behavior. The aim of this study is to examine the complexity of the relationships between religiosity, sensation seeking, injunctive norms, and adolescent substance use. Using a national sample of adolescents ( N = 18,614), negative binomial regression and path analysis were used to examine the various components of the relationship between religiosity and the use of cigarettes, alcohol, and marijuana. Results indicate that private religiosity moderates the relationship between key risk factors and substance use. Public and private religiosity were associated with tolerant injunctive substance use norms which, in turn, were associated with substance use. Implications for research and theory related to religiosity and adolescent substance use are discussed.

Psychometric study of an adolescent substance use scale

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-157
Author(s):  
Inmaculada Méndez Mateo ◽  
Fuensanta Cerezo ◽  
José Antonio López Pina
Keyword(s):  
Substance Use ◽  
Drug Use ◽  
Adolescent Substance Use ◽  
Health Consequences ◽  
Adolescent Substance ◽  
Psychometric Study ◽  
Related Risk ◽  
Factor Ii ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
Challenging Behaviours

Background: The study of drug use and other adolescent problem behaviours is approached from different preventive strategies. Schools are important as an environment in assessing the situation. Most instruments to evaluate this problem are limited in the type of drugs as well as in the implementation of related risk behaviours.Methods: This paper presents the psychometric study of a scale based on the ESTUDES survey to detect adolescent substance use, health consequences and challenging behaviours in educative contexts. FRIDA was selected to assess the concurrent validity. Participants were 1.264 students (M = 14.41, SD = 1.43) who participated voluntarily. Informed consent was requested. An exploratory factor analysis of the 19 selected items was carried out using the WLMSV method on tetrachoric correlation matrix and Geomin rotation with MPLUS was employed. Results: The results showed the scale consists of two factors: Factor I, substance abuse and health consequences, based on the use of illegal drugs, and Factor II, use of legal drugs and challenging behaviours.Conclusions:  It is a short instrument for the detection of drug use, health consequences and challenging behaviours in the educational field.

Parental Monitoring and Peer Influences on Adolescent Substance Use

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 93 (6) ◽  
pp. 1060-1064
Author(s):  
Laurence Steinberg ◽  
Anne Fletcher ◽  
Nancy Darling
Keyword(s):  
Substance Use ◽  
Drug Use ◽  
Peer Influence ◽  
Parental Monitoring ◽  
Peer Influences ◽  
Adolescent Substance Use ◽  
Adolescent Substance ◽  
Drugs And Alcohol ◽  
Alcohol Effects ◽  
Over Time

Objective. To examine the joint influences of parental monitoring and peer influence on adolescent substance use over time. Subjects. 6500 adolescents attending six high schools in Wisconsin and northern California. Design. Longitudinal study. Results. Parental monitoring was negatively associated with substance use, whereas the more involved an adolescent's peers were in substance use, the more likely he or she also was to use drugs and alcohol. Effects of monitoring and peer coercion were strongest for boys and girls at the transition into substance use, rather than at the transition from experimentation to regular use. The effect of parental monitoring on changes in adolescent substance use is mediated not so much by the nature of the adolescent's peer associates, but by its direct effect on the adolescent. Specifically, poorly monitored adolescents are more likely to use drugs, and drug-using adolescents seek out like-minded friends. Once an adolescent associates with drug-using peers, his or her own substance use approaches their level. Conclusions. Intervention efforts should include both parents and community-level efforts. Parental monitoring is an effective tool both in the prevention of drug use and in the amelioration of drug use.

The Impact of Adolescent Substance Use on Family Functioning

2017 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 504-528 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beth S. Russell ◽  
Emily Simpson ◽  
Kaitlin M. Flannery ◽  
Christine M. Ohannessian
Keyword(s):  
Substance Use ◽  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Alcohol Use ◽  
Family Functioning ◽  
Internalizing Symptoms ◽  
Family Cohesion ◽  
Adolescent Substance Use ◽  
Adolescent Substance ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
The Impact

This longitudinal study sought to investigate associations between adolescent substance use and family functioning and whether internalizing symptoms play a mediating role in this relationship; based on growing evidence from the literature, we also explored gender differences. Participants ( N = 1,036) completed surveys in school during 2007, 2008, and 2009. Path analysis results indicated that boys’ alcohol use negatively predicted family functioning while marijuana use results indicate both significant impacts on family functioning. Further results show that boys’ depressive symptoms mediated the relationships between alcohol use and family cohesion and adaptability. For girls, depressive symptoms negatively predicted family functioning (cohesion, adaptability, communication with mother/father), whereas anxiety symptoms positively predicted this same set of family functioning outcomes with the exception of communication with father.

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