Precursors of adolescent substance use from early childhood and early adolescence: Testing a developmental cascade model

Sitnick, Stephanie L.; Shaw, Daniel S.; Hyde, Luke W.

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“…Moreover, there is a lack of research that considers multiple domains of risk for HRSB from early childhood. Therefore, adopting a developmental cascade approach, which examines the longitudinal interplay between proximal and distal influences on individual development over time, 20 24 Given strong theoretical and empirical ties between child and family risk and deviant peer affiliation and parental monitoring, 25,26 as well as between peers and monitoring during adolescence and later deviant behavior, 27,28 it is possible that similar developmental pathways are relevant for adolescent HRSB.…”

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“…Furthermore, participants' endorsements of "getting someone else pregnant" are limited to only the pregnancies that participants were aware of. A final limitation of this study is that our measures of deviant peer affiliation and parental monitoring were target-rather than peer-or parent-reported; however, other studies have suggested that perceptions of peers' antisocial activities 24 and parenting 31 are associated with multiple types of adolescent high-risk health behaviors. Furthermore, perceptions of peers' behaviors are more highly correlated with risk behavior than peers' self-report 30 and adolescent perceptions of parenting have been shown to more accurately represent parental monitoring, because parents often overestimate their actual knowledge of their adolescent' s activities.…”

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Developmental Pathways to Sexual Risk Behavior in High-Risk Adolescent Boys

Sitnick¹,

Brennan²,

Forbes

et al. 2014

Pediatrics

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WHAT'S KNOWN ON THIS SUBJECT: Investigations of adolescents' sexual risk behavior have focused on factors such as parental monitoring, deviant peer affiliation, and daring that occur during early and midadolescence. Less is known about early childhood precursors to adolescent sexual risk behavior. WHAT THIS STUDY ADDS:This prospective longitudinal study identifies parenting practices and mothers' depressive symptomatology during early childhood as precursors to later sexual risk behavior and involvement in pregnancy in adolescent boys, with deviant peer affiliation during emerging adolescence mediating these relationships. abstract OBJECTIVE: Adolescent boys' involvement in pregnancy and sexual risk behavior is a public health concern. Although research has identified predictors of sexual risk behavior during adolescence, few studies have investigated precursors to boys' sexual risk behavior beginning in early childhood, the identification of which could serve to inform interventions and help reduce involvement in pregnancy. Our goal was to identify early developmental pathways associated with sexual risk behavior in a sample of low-income adolescent boys. METHODS:Data from a prospective longitudinal study in 310 at-risk boys were used to examine externalizing problems, mothers' depressive symptoms, and low-nurturant parenting in early childhood (1.5, 2, and 3.5 years old) and daring, externalizing, parental monitoring, and deviant peer affiliation during emerging adolescence (11 and 12 years old) as precursors of sexual risk behavior between the ages 15 and 20 years. Structural equation modeling was used to explore pathways associated with later high-risk sexual behavior (HRSB). RESULTS:In multivariate analyses, adolescent daring and deviant peer affiliation at age 12 were associated with later HRSB. Furthermore, deviant peer affiliation during emerging adolescence mediated the relationship between mothers' depressive symptoms and nurturant parenting during early childhood and later adolescent HRSB. CONCLUSIONS:Family-based risk factors in early childhood are predictive of HRSB in adolescence but are also influenced, and in some cases mediated, by relationships with peers and child characteristics during emerging adolescence.

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Developmental Pathways to Sexual Risk Behavior in High-Risk Adolescent Boys

Sitnick¹,

Brennan²,

Forbes

et al. 2014

Pediatrics

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“…There was good internal consistency among the alcohol use items (α = .873). Previous studies have successfully used the SRD to measure adolescent substance use (e.g., Sitnick et al, 2014).…”

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“…In this way, both depression (Forbes & Dahl, 2012) and substance use (Koob & Le Moal, 2001) could co-occur through their common association with disrupted reward function. Alternatively, psychosocial factors such as parental psychological dysfunction and child conduct problems have been found to predict both cannabis use (Sitnick et al, 2014) and depressive symptoms (Zoccolillo, 1992), potentially serving as a common vulnerability.…”

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Bidirectional Associations Between Cannabis Use and Depressive Symptoms From Adolescence Through Early Adulthood Among At-Risk Young Men

Womack

Shaw

Weaver

et al. 2016

J. Stud. Alcohol Drugs

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ABSTRACT. Objective:Previous studies have established a relationship between cannabis use and affective problems among adolescents and young adults; however, the direction of these associations remains a topic of debate. The present study sought to examine bidirectional associations between cannabis use and depressive symptoms, specifically testing the validity of two competing hypotheses: the cannabis effect hypothesis, which suggests that cannabis use contributes to the onset of later depressive symptoms; and the self-medication hypothesis, which posits that individuals increase their use of a substance to alleviate distressing psychological symptoms. Method: Participants in this study were 264 low-socioeconomic-status males assessed at ages 17, 20, and 22. Cross-lag panel models were fit to test bidirectional associations between cannabis use frequency and depressive symptoms across the transition from adolescence to early adulthood. In addition, analyses were conducted within two high-risk subsamples to examine whether associations between cannabis use frequency (ranging from never used to daily use) and depressive symptoms differed among regular cannabis users (used cannabis more than once per week) or subjects reporting at least mild levels of depressive symptoms. Results: Cannabis use and depressive symptoms were concurrently correlated. Cannabis use predicted increases in later depressive symptoms, but only among the mild-depression subsample. Depressive symptoms predicted only slight increases in later cannabis use, among the subsample of regular cannabis users. Conclusions: Temporal patterns of cannabis use and depressive symptoms provide evidence for the cannabis effect but limited evidence for the self-medication hypothesis. Adolescents higher in depressive symptoms may be vulnerable to the adverse psychological effects of using cannabis. Results are discussed in terms of implications for basic research, prevention, and intervention. (J. Stud. Alcohol Drugs, 77, 287-297, 2016)

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“…According to the Brazilian National Survey of Student Health (Pesquisa Nacional de Saúde do Escolar -PeNSE), carried out in 2012, 26.1% and 5.1% of adolescents between the ages of 13 and 15 had consumed alcohol or tobacco, respectively, in the 30 days prior to the interview, whilst 7.3% had tried some type of illicit drug at least once in their lives 3 . Substance use in adolescence is associated with substance use in adulthood, and it is a predictor of the future burden of substancerelated diseases 1,4,5 . The consumption of alcohol, tobacco and illicit drugs has been associated with several short-and long-term health problems, such as injuries, unprotected sex, cognitive deficits, mental health problems and premature death, caused mainly by traffic accidents, homicides and suicides 5,6,7,8 .…”

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Adverse childhood experiences and consumption of alcohol, tobacco and illicit drugs among adolescents of a Brazilian birth cohort

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The objective of this study was to investigate the association between adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and the use of alcohol, tobacco and illicit drugs among adolescents from a Brazilian cohort. The occurrence of five ACEs, the use of alcohol and tobacco and trying illicit drugs were investigated in the 1993 Pelotas birth cohort at the age of 15 (n = 4,230). A score was created for the ACEs and their association with the use of substances was evaluated. Around 25% of adolescents consumed alcohol, 6% smoked and 2.1% reported having used drugs at least once in their lives. The ACEs were associated with the use of alcohol, tobacco and illicit drugs. A dose-response relation between the number of ACEs and the substance use was found, particularly with regard to illicit drugs. The occurrence of ACEs was positively associated with the use of alcohol, tobacco and illicit drugs among adolescents and the risk may be different for men and women. These results point to the fact that strategies for preventing the use of substances should include interventions both among adolescents and within the family environment.

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Precursors of adolescent substance use from early childhood and early adolescence: Testing a developmental cascade model

Cited by 73 publications

References 98 publications

Developmental Pathways to Sexual Risk Behavior in High-Risk Adolescent Boys

Developmental Pathways to Sexual Risk Behavior in High-Risk Adolescent Boys

Bidirectional Associations Between Cannabis Use and Depressive Symptoms From Adolescence Through Early Adulthood Among At-Risk Young Men

Adverse childhood experiences and consumption of alcohol, tobacco and illicit drugs among adolescents of a Brazilian birth cohort

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