TY - JOUR
T1 - Social-ecological influences on patterns of substance use among non-metropolitan high school students
AU - Connell, Christian M.
AU - Gilreath, Tamika D.
AU - Aklin, Will M.
AU - Brex, Robert A.
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgments This research study was supported by a grant from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) Drug Free Communities Support Program (Grant# 1999-JN-FX-0035) to the Northeast Communities Against Substance Abuse (NECASA; Robert Brex: Principal Investigator). NECASA is currently supported by a grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA; Grant # SP13960-01). The authors’ wish to acknowledge NECASA staff involved in the survey administration including: Mary Ann Murphy-Patton, Susan Harrod, Michelle Rawcliffe, and Bonnie Wolters; as well as the school administrators, teachers, and students who participated in the survey administration. We also wish to acknowledge helpful comments by Arin Connell and also by members of the Division of Prevention and Community Research at Yale University School of Medicine on an earlier draft of this manuscript.
PY - 2010/2
Y1 - 2010/2
N2 - Patterns of substance use are examined in a sample of over 1,200 youth in a non-metropolitan region of New England. Self-reported history and frequency of alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, inhalants, pain medications, and other hard drug use was assessed for 9th and 10th grade students. Latent class analyses identified four patterns of substance use: non-users (22%), alcohol experimenters (38%), occasional polysubstance users (29%), and frequent polysubstance users (10%). Contextual risk and protective factors in the individual, family, peer, and community domains predicted substance use patterns. Youth report of peer substance use had the largest effects on substance use class membership. Other individual characteristics (e.g., gender, antisocial behavior, academic performance, perceived harm from use), family characteristics (e.g., parental drinking, parental disapproval of youth use), and community characteristics (e.g., availability of substances) demonstrated consistent effects on substance use classes. Implications for prevention are discussed from a social-ecological perspective.
AB - Patterns of substance use are examined in a sample of over 1,200 youth in a non-metropolitan region of New England. Self-reported history and frequency of alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, inhalants, pain medications, and other hard drug use was assessed for 9th and 10th grade students. Latent class analyses identified four patterns of substance use: non-users (22%), alcohol experimenters (38%), occasional polysubstance users (29%), and frequent polysubstance users (10%). Contextual risk and protective factors in the individual, family, peer, and community domains predicted substance use patterns. Youth report of peer substance use had the largest effects on substance use class membership. Other individual characteristics (e.g., gender, antisocial behavior, academic performance, perceived harm from use), family characteristics (e.g., parental drinking, parental disapproval of youth use), and community characteristics (e.g., availability of substances) demonstrated consistent effects on substance use classes. Implications for prevention are discussed from a social-ecological perspective.
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U2 - 10.1007/s10464-009-9289-x
DO - 10.1007/s10464-009-9289-x
M3 - Article
C2 - 20077132
AN - SCOPUS:77950593412
SN - 0091-0562
VL - 45
SP - 36
EP - 48
JO - American Journal of Community Psychology
JF - American Journal of Community Psychology
IS - 1
ER -