Brief, Personality-Targeted Coping Skills Interventions and Survival as a Non–Drug User Over a 2-Year Period During Adolescence

Conrod, Patricia J.; Castellanos‐Ryan, Natalie; Strang, John

doi:10.1001/archgenpsychiatry.2009.173

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“…Selective personality-targeted interventions that focus on specific personality traits as risk factors for negative and harmful behaviours have recently been shown to be more effective than universal prevention programs (see for example Conrod et al, 2010, Foxcroft and Tsertsvadze, 2011, Conrod et al, 2013 useful, especially when they target young children and adolescents. We believe that our study shows some of the ultimate benefits of these programs, which span a wide range of achievements, which might have important long lasting consequences on individuals' lives and society as a whole.…”

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The effect of personality traits on subject choice and performance in high school: Evidence from an English cohort

Mendolia

Walker

2014

Economics of Education Review

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Abstract:This paper investigates the relationship between personality traits in adolescence and performance in high school using a large and recent cohort study. In particular, we investigate the impact of locus of control, self-esteem, and work ethics at age 15, on test scores at age 16, and on subject choices and subsequent performance at age 17-18. In particular, individuals with external locus of control or with low levels of self-esteem seem less likely to have good performance in test scores at age 16 and to pursue further studies at 17-18, especially in mathematics or science.We use matching methods to control for a rich set of adolescent and family characteristics and we find that personality traits do affect study choices and performance in test scores -particularly in mathematics and science. We explore the robustness of our results using the methodology proposed by Altonji et al. (2005) that consists in making hypotheses about the correlation between the unobservables that determine test scores and subjects' choices and the unobservables that influence personality.

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The effect of personality traits on subject choice and performance in high school: Evidence from an English cohort

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Walker

2014

Economics of Education Review

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“…A second promising selective approach is a personalitybased model targeting four personality risk factors for early onset drinking or illicit drug use in early adolescence, including impulse control and sensation seeking. This school-based program has now been shown to prevent adolescent alcohol and substance misuse in three separate trials across Canada (Conrod, Stewart, Comeau, & Maclean, 2006) and the United Kingdom (Conrod, Castellanos, & Mackie, 2008;Conrod, Castellanos-Ryan, & Mackie, 2011;Conrod et al, 2010;O'Leary-Barrett, Mackie, Castellanos-Ryan, Al-Khudhairy, & Conrod, 2010). In this way, implementing targeted clinical interventions prior to initial exposure to drugs prevents or reduces the adverse impact from substance use on the developing brain and other potential harms, as well as reduces some of the huge financial costs of addiction treatment in adulthood.…”

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Pubertal development, personality, and substance use: A 10-year longitudinal study from childhood to adolescence.

Castellanos‐Ryan¹,

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Vitaro³

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Journal of Abnormal Psychology

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Most research linking early pubertal development to substance use has focused on the effects of pubertal timing (age at which a certain stage of pubertal development is reached or pubertal status at a particular age-related to the maturation disparity hypothesis), but little research has focused on pubertal tempo (rate of growth through pubertal stages-related to the maturation compression hypothesis). However, both timing and tempo have not only been identified as important components of pubertal development, with different predictors, but have also been shown to be independently associated with other adolescent psychopathologies. Using latent growth-curve modeling, this study examined how pubertal status at age 12 and pubertal tempo (between 11 and 13 years) related to substance use from 15 to 16 years in boys from low socioeconomic backgrounds (N = 871). Results showed that both pubertal status at age 12 and tempo were significant predictors of increased levels of substance use and problems in mid to late adolescence. In an attempt to identify mechanisms that may explain the association between pubertal development and substance use it was found that sensation seeking partially mediated the association between pubertal status at age 12 and substance use behaviors. Impulse control was found to moderate the association sensation seeking had with marijuana use frequency, with high Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Natalie Castellanos-Ryan, Centre de recherche du CHU Ste-Justine, Université de Montréal, 3175 Chemin de la Côte Sainte-Catherine, Montréal, H3T 1C5, Canada. natalie.castellanos.ryan@umontreal.ca. The authors report no potential conflicts of interest. CIHR Author ManuscriptCIHR Author Manuscript CIHR Author Manuscript sensation-seeking scores predicting higher marijuana use frequency only at low levels of impulse control. These findings highlight the importance of considering multiple sources of individual variability in the pubertal development of boys and provide support for both the maturational disparity and compression hypotheses. Keywordsadolescence; puberty; substance use; impulsivity; sensation seekingAdolescence is an important developmental period for the onset of substance use and misuse, with some considering exploratory drug use as normative during this period (e.g., Shedler & Block, 1990). Some Canadian statistics show that 42% of adolescents attending Grades 9 through 11 (or 3-5 of high school) have used cannabis in the last year, and by Grade 11, 86% of them were drinking alcohol (Dubé et al., 2009). Similarly, epidemiologic studies in the United States show that up to 50% of high school students report binge drinking, and around 25% report having tried an illicit substance (Office of National Statistics, 2008; U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2007). Youth substance use is also prevalent in Europe, with almost half of all young people in the United Kingdom trying an illegal drug by the age of 16 years and around one third of adolescents ...

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“…Additionally, although sensation seeking has been primarily used as a prevention and intervention target for marijuana (Conrod et al, 2008;Conrod et al, 2010;Stephenson et al, 1999), this review suggests that positive urgency, negative urgency, and lack of planning might also be prime points of intervention to mitigate marijuana use consequences, resulting in better treatment outcomes and less health and economic burden related to marijuana use consequences.…”

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“…For example, in addition to prevention strategies targeted toward sensation seeking (Conrod et al, 2008;Conrod et al, 2010), prevention and intervention strategies could target learning to plan and stay with long-term goals (thus targeting effects related to lack of planning) or learning to manage emotional responses without engaging in marijuana use (thus targeting effects related to lack of planning).…”

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UPPS-P model impulsivity and marijuana use behaviors in adolescents: A meta-analysis

VanderVeen

Hershberger

Cyders

2016

Drug and Alcohol Dependence

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Brief, Personality-Targeted Coping Skills Interventions and Survival as a Non–Drug User Over a 2-Year Period During Adolescence

Abstract: clinicaltrials.gov Identifier: NCT00344474.

Cited by 231 publications

References 35 publications

The effect of personality traits on subject choice and performance in high school: Evidence from an English cohort

The effect of personality traits on subject choice and performance in high school: Evidence from an English cohort

Pubertal development, personality, and substance use: A 10-year longitudinal study from childhood to adolescence.

UPPS-P model impulsivity and marijuana use behaviors in adolescents: A meta-analysis

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