This study examined the interaction of parental supervision and
adolescent alcohol use from late childhood through middle adolescence.
Not exact matches
«Our findings suggest that prevention and intervention efforts may benefit
from targeting depressive symptoms and
alcohol and marijuana
use to potentially reduce
adolescent use of SCs.»
A study revealed the reason why
adolescents from rural area were at higher risk of
alcohol use was likely that rural
adolescent and peer attitudes regarding
alcohol use are influenced by lower levels of parental less disapproval of
adolescent alcohol use and the higher tolerance for
alcohol use in rural communities [9].
Assessments conducted at earlier phases are specified in previous articles.7, 8 At the 15 - year follow - up assessment,
adolescents completed interviews that measured whether they had been adjudicated a person in need of supervision (PINS) resulting
from incorrigible behavior such as recurrent truancy or destroying parents» property; their frequency of running away
from home; and the number of times they had been stopped by the police, arrested, convicted of a crime or of probation violations, and sent to youth correctional facilities.14 They also reported on their disruptive behavior in school; number of school suspensions; delinquent and aggressive behavior outside school; experience of sexual intercourse; rates of pregnancy; lifetime number of sexual partners; and frequency of
using cigarettes,
alcohol, and illegal drugs during the 6 - month period prior to the 15 - year interview.15
The concept of resilience and closely related research regarding protective factors provides one avenue for addressing mental well - being that is suggested to have an impact on
adolescent substance
use.8 — 17 Resilience has been variably defined as the process of, capacity for, or outcome of successful adaptation in the context of risk or adversity.9, 10, 12, 13, 18 Despite this variability, it is generally agreed that a range of individual and environmental protective factors are thought to: contribute to an individual's resilience; be critical for positive youth development and protect
adolescents from engaging in risk behaviours, such as substance
use.19 — 22 Individual or internal resilience factors refer to the personal skills and traits of young people (including self - esteem, empathy and self - awareness).23 Environmental or external resilience factors refer to the positive influences within a young person's social environment (including connectedness to family, school and community).23 Various studies have separately reported such factors to be negatively associated with
adolescent use of different types of substances, 12, 16, 24 — 36 for example, higher self - esteem16, 29, 32, 35 is associated with lower likelihood of tobacco and
alcohol use.
Adolescent FBT's goal is to result in positive outcomes in such areas as
alcohol and drug
use, depression, conduct problems, family dysfunction, and days absent
from work / school.
Alcohol and marijuana
use trajectories in a diverse longitudinal sample of
adolescents: examining
use patterns
from age 11 to 17 years.
This article examined the effects of Preparing for the Drug Free Years (PDFY)[now called Guiding Good Choices], the Iowa Strengthening Families Program (ISFP), and a minimal - contact control condition on enhance growth in or maintenance of family norms against
alcohol and other drug
use and proactive family management, and to reduce or curb the growth in family conflict and that it would improve or help to maintain
adolescents» likelihood of resisting antisocial influence
from peers as well as reduce or curb the growth in
alcohol use during early adolescence.
The present study examined the effects of
alcohol and substance
use at age 11 on trajectories of physical aggression over time (ages 12 — 14) among urban
adolescents from Chicago, IL.
Adolescents also reported substance
use on four questions (i.e., «Have you, in the last 6 months, been smoking», «Have you, in the last 6 months, been
using non-medical drugs such as marijuana, hashish, amphetamines, cocaine, heroin, morphine, sleeping pills etc», «Have you, in the last 6 months, been drinking
alcohol during weekdays, that is,
from Monday to Thursday», «Have you, in the last 6 months, been drinking
alcohol during the weekend, that is,
from Friday to Sunday», α = 0.61).
Coping with
Alcohol, Tobacco and other Drugs What parents need to know about contemporary adolescent drug use and their role in reducing the harms from alcohol, tobacco and other
Alcohol, Tobacco and other Drugs What parents need to know about contemporary
adolescent drug
use and their role in reducing the harms
from alcohol, tobacco and other
alcohol, tobacco and other drugs.
Coping with
Alcohol, Tobacco and other Drugs What schools need to know about contemporary adolescent drug use and their role in reducing the harms from alcohol, tobacco and other
Alcohol, Tobacco and other Drugs What schools need to know about contemporary
adolescent drug
use and their role in reducing the harms
from alcohol, tobacco and other
alcohol, tobacco and other drugs.
We
used prospective data
from a large UK based population cohort (ALSPAC) to investigate the association between parental
alcohol use, measured in units, (assessed at ages 4 and 12 years) with childhood conduct trajectories, (assessed on six occasions
from 4 to 13.5 years, n = 6,927), and
adolescent depressive symptoms (assessed on four occasions
from ~ 13 to ~ 18 years, n = 5,539).
Using data
from the National Longitudinal Study of
Adolescent Health (Add Health) study, Wong and Brower (2012) found sleep problems to longitudinally predict suicidal thoughts and suicide attempts, even after controlling for depression,
alcohol problems, drug
use, and youth characteristics such as age, sex, and chronic health problems.