The Direct and Indirect Effects of Parental Bonds, Parental Drug Use, and Self-Control on Adolescent Substance Use

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.

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

Journal of Drug Issues ◽

10.1177/002204260503500410 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 35 (4) ◽

pp. 869-883 ◽

Cited By ~ 47

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.

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Parental Monitoring and Peer Influences on Adolescent Substance Use

PEDIATRICS ◽

10.1542/peds.93.6.1060 ◽

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.

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Cumulative Stressors and Adolescent Substance Use: A Review of 21st-Century Literature

Trauma Violence & Abuse ◽

10.1177/1524838020979674 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 152483802097967

Author(s):

John P. Hoffmann ◽

Melissa S. Jones

Keyword(s):

Substance Use ◽

Stressful Life Events ◽

Empirical Studies ◽

Self Control ◽

Adolescent Substance Use ◽

Eligibility Criteria ◽

Childhood Experiences ◽

Adolescent Substance ◽

21St Century Literature ◽

Low Self Control

The aim of this review is to assess empirical studies from the last 2 decades that have examined the association between cumulative stressors and adolescent substance use. Cumulative stressors were measured in these studies with adverse childhood experiences or adolescent stressful life events inventories. The 109 articles meeting the eligibility criteria that emerged from the review demonstrated a consistent, yet modest, association between cumulative stressors and adolescent substance use. Of note, several studies found that the associations were moderated or mediated by genetic factors related to cortisol regulation, intrapersonal factors such as low self-control, or interpersonal factors such as peer substance use. The review’s findings thus suggest that efforts to reduce the effects of cumulative stressors on substance use could gainfully identify and target these risk moderators and mediators.

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

Development and Psychopathology ◽

10.1017/s0954579499002382 ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 11 (4) ◽

pp. 915-932 ◽

Cited By ~ 45

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.

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