Perceived Peer Behavior and Parental Support as Correlates of Marijuana Use: The Role of Age and Gender.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Parental support and perceptions of peer behavior on substance use are well-studied, but precisely how their associations vary as a function of age, and how those age-specific patterns vary by gender, remain unknown components of the developmental process underlying substance use.

Methods

Using data from an 18-year longitudinal study of predominantly African-American students at high-risk for high school dropout in Flint, Michigan (baseline average age = 14.8 years), we examined longitudinal associations between past 30-day marijuana use and three self-reported variables: perceived friend drug use, perceived friend aggression, parental support. We used varying-coefficient regression models to semiparametrically estimate how covariate effects on past 30-day marij

SUBMITTER: Goldstick JE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5766400 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature