Disentangling longitudinal relations between youth cannabis use, peer cannabis use, and conduct problems: developmental cascading links to cannabis use disorder.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

To determine whether cannabis use during adolescence can increase risk not only for cannabis use disorder (CUD) but also for conduct problems, potentially mediated by exposure to peers who use cannabis.

Design, setting, participants

Longitudinal study analyzing four waves of longitudinal data from 364 racially and socio-economically diverse, urban, US community youth (at baseline: M_age  = 13.51 (0.95); 49.1% female).

Measurements

Self-reports of cannabis use, conduct problems, proportion of peers using cannabis and CUD criteria at the final wave were analyzed using a method sensitive to changes over development, the random-intercept cross-lagged panel model.

Findings

Change in cannabis use did not predict changes in conduct problems or peer cann

SUBMITTER: Defoe IN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6519359 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature