Religiosity and Adolescent Substance Use: Evidence From the National Survey on Drug Use and Health

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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Adolescent Substance Use and Other Illegal Behaviors and Racial Disparities in Criminal Justice System Involvement: Findings From a US National Survey

American Journal of Public Health ◽

10.2105/ajph.2012.300699 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 102 (7) ◽

pp. 1307-1310 ◽

Cited By ~ 28

Author(s):

Meghana Kakade ◽

Cristiane S. Duarte ◽

Xinhua Liu ◽

Cordelia J. Fuller ◽

Ernest Drucker ◽

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Keyword(s):

Substance Use ◽

Criminal Justice ◽

Racial Disparities ◽

Criminal Justice System ◽

National Survey ◽

Justice System ◽

Adolescent Substance Use ◽

Adolescent Substance ◽

System Involvement

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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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Exploring comorbid use of marijuana, tobacco, and alcohol among 14 to 15-year-olds: findings from a national survey on adolescent substance use

BMC Public Health ◽

10.1186/s12889-015-1585-9 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 15 (1) ◽

Cited By ~ 14

Author(s):

Joanna White ◽

Darren Walton ◽

Natalie Walker

Keyword(s):

Substance Use ◽

National Survey ◽

Adolescent Substance Use ◽

Adolescent Substance

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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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Working memory ability and early drug use progression as predictors of adolescent substance use disorders

Addiction ◽

10.1111/add.13792 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 112 (7) ◽

pp. 1220-1228 ◽

Cited By ~ 26

Author(s):

Atika Khurana ◽

Daniel Romer ◽

Laura M. Betancourt ◽

Hallam Hurt

Keyword(s):

Working Memory ◽

Substance Use ◽

Drug Use ◽

Substance Use Disorders ◽

Adolescent Substance Use ◽

Adolescent Substance ◽

Memory Ability ◽

Early Drug

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Child and Adolescent Socialization into Substance Use

The Oxford Handbook of Adolescent Substance Abuse ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199735662.013.018 ◽

2015 ◽

pp. 344-372

Author(s):

John E. Donovan

Keyword(s):

Substance Use ◽

Drug Use ◽

Parenting Practices ◽

Management Practices ◽

Child And Adolescent ◽

Adolescent Substance Use ◽

Family Management ◽

Adolescent Substance ◽

Cigarette Advertising ◽

Parental Substance Use

This chapter reviews the literature on family, peer, and media influences on alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use among children and adolescents. Parental drinking and drug use are significant predictors of child and adolescent drinking, smoking, and marijuana use. Furthermore, parental substance use is associated with lower quality parenting and family management practices, which are, in turn, associated with greater offspring substance use. In addition, parental substance use and parenting practices are associated with adolescents’ affiliation with substance-using friends. Parental nonuse and effective parenting practices buffer the relation between friends’ modeling of substance use and adolescent offspring substance use. Sibling and friend substance use relate both concurrently and longitudinally to adolescent substance use. Lastly, child and adolescent exposure to alcohol and smoking on television and in films, and to alcohol and cigarette advertising, constitutes a third independent source of modeling and influence on child and adolescent substance use.

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The Influence of Adolescent Substance Use and Socialization on Deviant Behavior in Young Adulthood

Criminal Justice and Behavior ◽

10.1177/0093854894021002004 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 21 (2) ◽

pp. 236-255 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

SYBILLE M. GUY ◽

GENE M. SMITH ◽

P. M. BENTLER

Keyword(s):

Substance Use ◽

Drug Use ◽

Criminal Behavior ◽

Latent Variable ◽

Deviant Behavior ◽

Adolescent Substance Use ◽

Adolescent Substance ◽

Adolescent Drug Use ◽

Interpersonal Aggression ◽

The Impact

This study examined the impact of adolescent substance use on adult substance use and criminal behavior. Longitudinal data from 657 participants were assessed over 12 years (1969-1981). Latent variable models were used to determine what effect, if any, adolescent drug use had on later deviance. In addition, constructs relevant to traditional theories of social control, such as the extent of socialization and obedience to rules, were also included as predictors. The results showed that a general drug use factor in adolescence significantly predicted adult illicit substance use, theft, and interpersonal aggression. Drug-related accidents (automobile and other) were also predicted from adolescent drug use. These findings are consistent with several theories suggesting that different forms of deviance may influence each other over time.

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