Adolescents' Use of Free Time and Associations with Substance Use from 1991 to 2019.

ABSTRACT: Background: Understanding time trends in risk factors for substance use may contextualize and explain differing time trends in substance use. Methods: We examined data (N = 536,291; grades 8/10/12) from Monitoring the Future, years 1991-2019. Using Latent Profile Analyses, we identified six time use patterns: one for those working at a paid job and the other five defined by levels of socialization (low/high) and engagement in structured activities like sports (engaged/disengaged), with the high social/engaged group split further by levels of unsupervised social activities. We tested associations between time use profiles and past two-week binge drinking as well as past-month alcohol use, cigarette use, cannabis use, other substance use, and vaping. We examined trends and grou

SUBMITTER: Kreski NT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9746067 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature