Person–Environment Fit, Substance Use Attitudes, and Early Adolescent Substance Use

Adolescent substance use.

Early Adolescents and Substance Use

1300 students (54.3% girls) 13-16 years old were interviewed in the urban area of Bologna during 2010. Random effect multiple logistic regression models were used. Results show a reciprocal relationship between alcohol use, tobacco, and cannabis. Most users were offered cannabis, began using at 14 years of age, and do not believe using is very dangerous. They live with only one parent, have mor...

Developmental cascades: linking adolescent substance use, affiliation with substance use promoting peers, and academic achievement to adult substance use disorders.

Using a high-risk community sample (N = 405), the current study examined developmental cascades among substance use, affiliation with substance use promoting peers, and academic achievement over an 18-year period and tested whether these pathways mediated the influence of parental alcoholism on adult alcohol and drug use disorders. Results showed that the influence of parental alcoholism on adu...

Impulsivity, peer influence, and adolescent substance use

Parental substance use consequences and adolescent psychopathology.

OBJECTIVE This study examines the relationship between parental substance use consequences and adolescent psychological problems by gender of the adolescent and gender of the parent. METHOD The data in this study were collected between 1989 and 1994 from 173 (116 proband and 57 control) families participating in the Collaborative Study on the Genetics of Alcoholism (COGA) project. All 173 ado...