Drug use, violence, and victimization among White American, Mexican American, and American Indian dropouts, students with academic problems, and students in good academic standing.

Beauvais, Frederick; Chavez, Ernest L.; Oetting, E. R.; Deffenbacher, Jerry L.; Cornell, Gregory R.

doi:10.1037/0022-0167.43.3.292

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“…Problem-prone behaviour and general deviancy theory describe adolescent dropping out and substance use as being two of a constellation of problem behaviours, co-varying with other deviant behaviours to which certain adolescents are prone (in BattinPearson et al 2000;Beauvais et al 1996;Fagan and Pabon 1990;Fergusson and Horwood 1997;Fergusson et al 1996;Kaplan and Liu 1994;Newcomb et al 2002;. Specifically, different forms of deviant behaviour co-vary because adolescents who hold non-conforming attitudes and values, and who attempt to establish their identities as independent and adult persons, are more likely to be engaged in a variety of non-conformist behaviours such as smoking, drug and alcohol use, and abandoning the student role (including dropping out of school) amongst others.…”

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A Systematic Review of the Relationship between High School Dropout and Substance Use

Townsend

Flisher

King

2007

Clin Child Fam Psychol Rev

342

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A systematic review of peer-reviewed, empirical literature published between 1990 and 2006 was undertaken to determine whether existing research could provide evidence, and a deeper understanding of the relationship between dropping out of high school and the use of substances such as tobacco, alcohol, cannabis/marijuana and other illicit drugs. Forty-six articles were reviewed. The review describes the heterogeneity of theoretical frameworks employed, as well as the limited ability of any one to adequately explain the relationship between high school dropout and substance use. A refinement of the many confounding and mediating variables into coherent conceptual categories would aid more robust theory building and theory integration. In spite of differences in dropout definitions and diverse measures of substance use across studies, the main findings point to a largely consistent relationship between dropping out of high school and substance use. However, socially disadvantaged and poor persons, dropouts, and drug users are over-represented in some of the loss to follow-up groups in longitudinal studies surveyed. More rigorous mechanisms to retain participants in longitudinal studies should be employed. Suggestions for future research include comparisons between urban and rural populations, employing qualitative research methods, and research in developing countries, which have the least favourable school outcomes and a dearth of research on high school dropout.

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A Systematic Review of the Relationship between High School Dropout and Substance Use

Townsend

Flisher

King

2007

Clin Child Fam Psychol Rev

342

206

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“…6,13,14 Research has shown that inhalant use often occurs in conjunction with other risk behaviors and that higher rates of inhalant abuse occur among children who have poor grades or have dropped out of school compared with classmates who remain in good standing at school. 6,[13][14][15] Although inhalant abuse is more prevalent among 11 Similarly, most other studies have found rates of inhalant use by Hispanic youth to be the same as or lower than use by non-Hispanic white youth. [4][5][6][7][8]10,11 NSDUH data consistently show that rates of inhalant abuse by Asian American youth are among the lowest.…”

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Inhalant Abuse

Williams¹,

Storck²

2007

Pediatrics

122

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Inhalant abuse is the intentional inhalation of a volatile substance for the purpose of achieving an altered mental state. As an important, yet-underrecognized form of substance abuse, inhalant abuse crosses all demographic, ethnic, and socioeconomic boundaries, causing significant morbidity and mortality in school-aged and older children. This clinical report reviews key aspects of inhalant abuse, emphasizes the need for greater awareness, and offers advice regarding the pediatrician's role in the prevention and management of this substance abuse problem.

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“…Others argue, however, that adolescent drug use is a normative aspect of development, and moderate use is not necessarily associated with negative outcomes (Shedler & Block, 1990). Associations between dropout and drug use suggest that these negative outcomes tend to co-occur across ethnic groups (Beauvais, Chavez, Oetting, Deffenbacher, & Cornell, 1996), and drug use has been shown to contribute to dropout risk among Hispanic youth (Fagan & Pabon, 1990). …”

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Academic Risk Among Inner-City Adolescents

Ripple

Luthar

2000

Journal of School Psychology

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In this 3-year prospective study, we explored antecedents of school-based adjustment among 134 inner-city high-school students. We examined the role of freshman-year risk and protective factors in relation to dropout status and senior-year adjustment indices among those who remained in school, including academic performance, psychological symptoms, and drug use. Although each single attribute included in this study has been linked to poor academic performance in previous investigations, the primary goal in this study was to determine which attributes were strongly related to academic problems when considered together. In addition, we sought to establish whether risk factors associated with dropout were the same as those that predicted academic problems among students who remained in school. Findings indicated that freshman-year attendance and demographic indices were most strongly predictive of dropout. Among adolescents who remained in school, freshman academic success was robustly linked to senior-year competence. Implications for identifying inner-city high-school students at high risk for academic problems are discussed. KeywordsRisk; Adolescence; Dropout; Ethnicity; Low SES; Academic adjustment Current trends among economically disadvantaged high-school students reflect academic improvements in some areas. For example, the dropout rate among African Americans is declining to the levels of non-Hispanic whites (McMillen & Kaufman, 1997). However, there are also areas of growing concern, such as persistently high dropout rates among specific subgroups, poor academic achievement, and drug use in many inner-city schools.Strong links between low socioeconomic status (SES) and low academic performance and dropout (McLoyd, 1998) help to explain the clustering of negative academic outcomes among low-income inner-city adolescents. But beyond associations involving SES and ethnicity with variations in academic adjustment (McDermott, 1995) NIH-PA Author Manuscript NIH-PA Author Manuscript NIH-PA Author Manuscript degree of variability in outcomes among groups of low-income minority students. What differentiates between low-SES students who succeed academically from those who do not?Whereas academic success is a complex and multidetermined construct (Walberg & Tsai, 1985), this article focuses on the role of personal attributes in predicting academic success among low-income teens. Individual characteristics have been established as strong predictors of dropout, more so than, for example, neighborhood variables (Ensminger, Lamkin, & Jacobson, 1996). Although we will concentrate on this one domain of risk-we will not include other salient influences such as school quality, peer and family relationships, and neighborhood/community effects-this investigation will add to the literature by exploring risk within a group of low-income inner-city high-school students. We followed these teens from their freshman to senior year, a time frame that we selected primarily because high-school administrators expressed concern a...

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Drug use, violence, and victimization among White American, Mexican American, and American Indian dropouts, students with academic problems, and students in good academic standing.

Cited by 80 publications

References 26 publications

A Systematic Review of the Relationship between High School Dropout and Substance Use

A Systematic Review of the Relationship between High School Dropout and Substance Use

Inhalant Abuse

Academic Risk Among Inner-City Adolescents

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