Childhood Aggression, Adolescent Delinquency, and Drug Use: A Longitudinal Study

Brook, Judith S.; Whiteman, Martin; Finch, Steven

doi:10.1080/00221325.1992.10753733

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“…Among Caucasian girls, the finding that greater physical aggression was associated with more initial positive alcohol expectancies is in accord with reports that physical aggression predicted early alcohol use in adolescents (e.g., Brook et al, 1992), and that the association between delinquency and alcohol use in sixth to eleventh graders was mediated by positive alcohol expectancies (Meier et al, 2007). This study adds to this literature by showing that physical aggression at an early age in Caucasian girls is associated with a cognitive precursor of alcohol use.…”

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“…Among individual factors, drinking experience in adolescence has been associated with increases in positive expectancies (Dunn and Goldman, 1998;Smith et al, 1995). In addition, certain youth, such as those with high levels of physical aggression or depression, appear to be at higher risk for early alcohol use (Brook et al, 1992;Fothergilll and Ensminger, 2006), and may hold more positive alcohol expectancies. Few studies have examined the role that neighborhood context and psychopathology play in the development of alcohol expectancies.…”

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Ethnic Differences in Positive Alcohol Expectancies During Childhood: The Pittsburgh Girls Study

Chung

Hipwell

Loeber

et al. 2008

Alcoholism Clin & Exp Res

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Background-Positive expectancies about alcohol's effects are more likely to be endorsed with increasing age through adolescence, and the strength of positive alcohol expectancies in children appears to differ by ethnicity. Little is known about the extent to which differences in a measure's psychometric properties as a function of development and ethnicity may account for changes that are observed over time and ethnic differences. This study used measurement invariance methods to examine ethnic differences in the development of alcohol expectancies, and examined risk factors associated with girls' positive expectancies.

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Section: Ethnic Differences In Positive Alcohol Expectancies During Cmentioning

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Ethnic Differences in Positive Alcohol Expectancies During Childhood: The Pittsburgh Girls Study

Chung

Hipwell

Loeber

et al. 2008

Alcoholism Clin & Exp Res

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“…This approach suggests that adulthood effects are a result of selective recruitment into adolescent marijuana use of nonconforming individuals, not that marijuana use has an independent effect on later behavior. Supporting this explanation is that numerous individual and family risk factors have been shown to be related to early drug use and poor adult functioning, including childhood problem behavior-such as aggression and poor achievement-low family socioeconomic status, and family history of drug use (e.g., Block, Block, & Keyes, 1988;Brier, 1995;Brook & Newcomb, 1995;Brook, Whiteman, Cohen, & Tanaka, 1992;Donovan & Jessor, 1985;Ensminger & Juon, 1998;Ensminger & Slusarcick, 1992;Fleming, Kellam, & Brown, 1982;Jessor & Jessor, 1978;Kellam, Brown, Rubin, & Ensminger, 1983;Masse & Tremblay, 1997;Mechanic & Hansell, 1987;Newcomb & Bentler, 1988).…”

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Adult social behavioral effects of heavy adolescent marijuana use among African Americans.

Green¹,

Ensminger²

2006

Developmental Psychology

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The authors examined the effects of heavy adolescent marijuana use on employment, marriage, and family formation and tested both dropping out of high school and adult marijuana use as potential mediators of these associations among a community sample of African Americans followed longitudinally from age 6 to age 32-33. They used propensity score matching to reduce selection bias when estimating the effects of heavy adolescent marijuana use. Logistic regression results on the sample matched on sex, and early demographic and behavioral variables showed that adolescent marijuana use has adult social behavioral consequences: Use of marijuana 20 times or more during adolescence was associated with being unemployed and unmarried in young adulthood and having children outside of marriage for both males and females. Dropping out of high school and more frequent adult marijuana use seem to be important parts of the pathway from adolescent marijuana use to negative life outcomes. Keywords adolescent marijuana use; social behavioral functioning; longitudinal studies; long-term consequences Marijuana is the most common of all illicit substances used by adolescents. Findings from the Monitoring the Future Survey, a national annual survey of students, show that over 20% of high school seniors report current use, 34% report use in the past year, and almost half (45%) report lifetime use of marijuana (Johnston, O'Malley, Bachman, & Schulenberg, 2005). Although the literature consistently discusses the widespread nature of adolescent marijuana use and the risk factors associated with use, considerably less is known about the effects of adolescent marijuana use on later functioning (Brook, Adams, Balka, & Johnson, 2002;Newcomb, 1997), especially in minority populations (Beauvais & Oetting, 2002). Even though many of the concurrent effects that result from teenage drug use (e.g., memory and attention impairment, risky decision making, driving injuries and fatalities, delinquentCorrespondence concerning this article should be addressed to Kerry M. Green, who is now at the Department of Health, Behavior, and Society, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, 624 North Broadway, Baltimore, MD 21205. kgreen@jhsph.edu. HHS Public Access Author Manuscript Author ManuscriptAuthor ManuscriptAuthor Manuscript activities, and estrangement from traditional institutions) have been supported empirically (see Hall & Solowij, 1998, for review), longer term consequences of adolescent drug use and the mechanisms explaining such effects are not well understood. Although most teenage marijuana use is time-limited and typically ends by one's mid-20s (Bachman, Wadsworth, O'Malley, Johnston, & Schulenberg, 1997), it is unclear if effects persist after use desists or even develop later in life. This information would be useful in developing drug prevention and intervention programs.Because adolescence is an important time for the development of skills necessary to function as an adult in society, marijuana use, especially hea...

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“…In addition, although there is increasing evidence that men and women experience different substance abuse trajectories and consequences (Boyd and Mieczkowski, 1990;Brook et al, 1992;Carlson and Siegal, 1991;Hser et al, 1987), most research on drug and alcohol abuse and dependence has focused on males (Wasilow-Mueller and Erickson, 2001). …”

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Childhood and adolescent antecedents of drug and alcohol problems: A longitudinal study

Fothergill

Ensminger

2006

Drug and Alcohol Dependence

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Despite the serious health and economic consequences of drug and alcohol abuse and dependence, few studies have prospectively examined the etiology of this problem in non-clinical populations. This longitudinal study examines childhood and adolescent antecedents of drug and alcohol problems in adulthood among an African American cohort (n = 1242; 51% female) from Woodlawn, a neighborhood in Chicago. The participants were followed from age 6 to 32 years, and data were collected in first grade, adolescence, and adulthood. Structural equation modeling showed that, for both males and females, educational attainment was directly associated with a reduced risk for substance use problems. For males, first grade shyness was directly associated with a reduced risk of substance use problems, and adolescent substance use was directly associated with an increased risk. First grade aggression, low family socioeconomic status (SES), and low school bonds were indirectly associated with substance use problems for both males and females. For males, first grade underachievement had an indirect effect, and, for females, first grade shyness and strong parental supervision had indirect effects. This study is among the first to identify life course trajectories to substance use problems among an African American, community-based population. These results help to identify the targets and timing of interventions that may help to reduce the risk of drug and alcohol problems in adulthood.

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Childhood Aggression, Adolescent Delinquency, and Drug Use: A Longitudinal Study

Cited by 100 publications

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Ethnic Differences in Positive Alcohol Expectancies During Childhood: The Pittsburgh Girls Study

Ethnic Differences in Positive Alcohol Expectancies During Childhood: The Pittsburgh Girls Study

Adult social behavioral effects of heavy adolescent marijuana use among African Americans.

Childhood and adolescent antecedents of drug and alcohol problems: A longitudinal study

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