TY - JOUR
T1 - Substance use and personal adjustment among disadvantaged teenagers
T2 - A six-month prospective study
AU - Luthar, Suniya S.
AU - Cushing, Gretta
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by funding to the first author by Research Scientist Development Award K21-DA00202, by grant PSO-DA09241, and an award from the Social Science Research Council through funding from the Rockefeller Foundation. 1Associate Professor of Psychology and Education, Teachers College, Columbia University, Box 133, 525 West 120th Street, New York, New York 10027-6696. Ph.D., Yale University. Research interests include resilience and vulnerabilityamong at-risk families/individuals. To whom reprint requests should be addressed. 2Graduate student in clinical psychology, Universityof Utah. BA. from University of Chicago. Research interests include adolescent development and drug abuse.
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PY - 1997/6
Y1 - 1997/6
N2 - Using a 2-wave longitudinal design with a 6-month interval, associations were examined between substance use and emotional/behavioral adjustment among 138 inner-city ninth-grade students. Substance use was operationalized in terms of self-reported severity of problems associated with use of alcohol, marijuana, and other drugs. Adjustment was measured based on various sources including ratings by the self, by peers, and by teachers, as well as school records. Cross-sectional data indicated that drug use showed associations in expected directions with all indices of adjustment with the exception of peer-rated sociability. Longitudinal analyses indicated that high levels of drug use early in the year were related to subsequent increases in behavioral and emotional maladjustment. Early maladjustment, across different domains, conversely, was minimally associated with escalations in drug use. Results are discussed in terms of mechanisms potentially underlying prospective associations, as well as implications for interventions.
AB - Using a 2-wave longitudinal design with a 6-month interval, associations were examined between substance use and emotional/behavioral adjustment among 138 inner-city ninth-grade students. Substance use was operationalized in terms of self-reported severity of problems associated with use of alcohol, marijuana, and other drugs. Adjustment was measured based on various sources including ratings by the self, by peers, and by teachers, as well as school records. Cross-sectional data indicated that drug use showed associations in expected directions with all indices of adjustment with the exception of peer-rated sociability. Longitudinal analyses indicated that high levels of drug use early in the year were related to subsequent increases in behavioral and emotional maladjustment. Early maladjustment, across different domains, conversely, was minimally associated with escalations in drug use. Results are discussed in terms of mechanisms potentially underlying prospective associations, as well as implications for interventions.
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U2 - 10.1007/s10964-005-0007-1
DO - 10.1007/s10964-005-0007-1
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0031515316
SN - 0047-2891
VL - 26
SP - 353
EP - 372
JO - Journal of youth and adolescence
JF - Journal of youth and adolescence
IS - 3
ER -