A developmental cascade model for early adolescent-onset substance use: the role of early childhood stress.

ABSTRACT:

Backgrounds and aims

Despite the link between stress and addictive behavior in adulthood, little is known about how early life stress in families predicts the early emergence of substance use in adolescence. This study tested a developmental cascade model, proposing that early stressful life events and negative parent-child interaction covary, and both disrupt the refinement of inhibitory control, which evolves into problem behavior in middle/late childhood and subsequent substance use exploration in early adolescence.

Methods

Data came from the Early Steps Multisite study, a community sample of at-risk families in the metropolitan US areas of Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania), Eugene (Oregon) and Charlottesville (Virginia) with children aged 2 years at the start of the study and 14

SUBMITTER: Otten R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6519208 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature