Adult social behavioral effects of heavy adolescent marijuana use among African Americans
Adult social behavioral effects of heavy adolescent marijuana use among African Americans
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DOI：
10.1037/0012-1649.42.6.1168
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发表时间：
2006-11-01
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4
通讯作者：
Ensminger, Margaret E.
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作者：
Green, Kerry M.;Ensminger, Margaret E.
作者研究了青少年大量使用大麻对就业，婚姻和家庭形成的影响，并测试了高中辍学和成年人使用大麻作为这些协会的潜在调解人，这些协会是从6岁到32-33岁纵向跟踪的非裔美国人社区样本。在估计青少年大量使用大麻的影响时，他们使用倾向评分匹配来减少选择偏差。对性别、早期人口统计学和行为变量进行匹配的样本的逻辑回归结果表明，青少年大麻使用具有成人社会行为后果：青少年时期使用大麻20次或以上与年轻时失业和未婚以及男性和女性的婚外子女有关。高中辍学和更频繁的成人大麻使用似乎是从青少年大麻使用到负面生活结果的重要组成部分。
The authors examined the effects of heavy adolescent marijuana use on employment, marriage, and family formation and tested both dropping out of high school and adult marijuana use as potential mediators of these associations among a community sample of African Americans followed longitudinally from age 6 to age 32-33. They used propensity score matching to reduce selection bias when estimating the effects of heavy adolescent marijuana use. Logistic regression results on the sample matched on sex, and early demographic and behavioral variables showed that adolescent marijuana use has adult social behavioral consequences: Use of marijuana 20 times or more during adolescence was associated with being unemployed and unmarried in young adulthood and having children outside of marriage for both males and females. Dropping out of high school and more frequent adult marijuana use seem to be important parts of the pathway from adolescent marijuana use to negative life outcomes.