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Casanueva, Cecilia; Stambaugh, Leyla; Urato, Matthew; Fraser, Jenifer Goldman; Williams, Jason – Journal of Child & Adolescent Substance Abuse, 2014
This study examined illicit substance use among 1,004 adolescents, ages 11-21, involved with the Child Welfare System (CWS) and followed from 1999 to 2007. By the time they reached transition age, more than 60% of the sample had used an illicit substance in their lifetime. Predictors of regular use during adolescence were having a prior CWS…
Descriptors: Drug Use, Sexuality, Parenting Styles, Family (Sociological Unit)
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Cornelius, Marie D.; Goldschmidt, Lidush; Day, Nancy L. – Health Education & Behavior, 2016
Purpose: A longitudinal cohort of adolescents who initiated drinking before age 15 were studied to determine which factors distinguished between early initiators who continued to drink (persisters) from those who stopped drinking (desisters). There were 308 early initiators in the total sample (n = 917); 247 were persisters, and 61 were desisters.…
Descriptors: Drinking, Adolescents, Mothers, Depression (Psychology)
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Weed, Keri; Morales, Dawn A.; Harjes, Rachel – Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, 2013
Trajectories of depressive symptoms were compared between European American and African American boys and girls from ages 8 to 14 in a longitudinal sample of 130 children born to adolescent mothers. Mixed-effects regression modeling was used to analyze individual and group differences in level of depressive symptoms and their changes over time.…
Descriptors: Depression (Psychology), Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Parenting Styles, Parent Attitudes