A Latent Transition Analysis of Self-Reported Reasons for Marijuana Use During Young Adulthood.

ABSTRACT: Individuals' reasons for marijuana use have been linked to their risk for continued use and development of disordered use. Although individuals tend to have multiple reasons for use, co-occurrence of reasons is not always accounted for in analytic approaches. Latent transition analysis (LTA) is ideal for modeling transitions in co-occurring reasons. Using longitudinal panel data from Monitoring the Future, LTA was used to identify profiles of self-reported reasons for marijuana use among young adults, examine transitions between profiles, and determine whether cohort, gender, race/ethnicity, parent education, grade of first marijuana use, and 4-year college attendance predicted transitions between profiles. Data included senior year cohorts from 1976-2009 and were collected at ages 19/20,

SUBMITTER: Bray BC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7923687 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature