DRUG USE AND LIFESTYLES OF AMERICAN YOUTH

这项提案寻求在五年内继续监测 未来，这是一个正在进行的流行病学研究和报告项目。 该项目始于1975年，作为一项基础研究， 也是国家可靠信息的主要来源之一 关于毒品使用的趋势。它基于两个相互关联的系列 使用具有全国代表性的样本进行的调查：(A)年度 高中高年级学生调查(135所高中每年约17,000人 (B)小组年度后续调查(约1,200次) 每个毕业班的人)，然后邮寄最多 高中已经过去16年了。因此，研究中的种群 由美国高中生、大学生和 大多数男性和女性的年龄都在34岁。 这项研究的队列序贯设计允许区分 随着时间的推移，三种类型的变化--长期的、成熟的和队列的-- 它们中的每一个往往都有非常不同类型的决定因素， 而且所有这些都已经被发现至少发生了 一些毒品。除了监测多种类型的药物使用外， 以及许多可能有助于解释世俗的因素 在这些趋势中，该项目还有以下附加目标 通过这一部分记录使用的自然历史 生命周期，确定社会角色和 社会环境促成了这段历史，并决定了 这些角色和环境的哪些特点是特殊的 重要性。它还试图检查许多 其他假设的心理、行为和社交 吸毒的决定因素(包括对以下问题的态度和信念 毒品和不同的生活方式取向)以及 吸毒的潜在后果(包括身体健康、 心理幸福感、地位获得与角色 性能)。事实上，这些多重目标和多重 人群被包含在一项单一的、综合的研究中 协同效应和成本效益。 研究中包含的五种不同的测量内容 调查问卷的形式特别广泛。它包括：(A) 使用约30类合法和非法药物；(B) 感知的可用性、感知的同伴规范和态度以及 关于其中许多药物的使用的信仰；(C)一些 其他领域的人的特征(行为、 态度、信念、健康症状、成就、生活方式 变量)；和(D)主要社会环境的许多方面 (学校、工作、大学、家庭)以及角色地位和经历 (婚姻、为人父母、离婚、就业、教育)两者都有 在高中期间和高中毕业后。范围广泛的出版物包括 有计划的。

This proposal seeks a five-year continuation of Monitoring the Future, an ongoing epidemological research and reporting project. Begun in 1975, the project functions as a basic research study, as well as one of the country's major sources of reliable information on trends in drug use. It is based on two interconnected series of surveys using nationally representative samples: (a) an annual survey of seniors in high schools (about 17,000 per year in 135 high schools), and (b) annual follow-up surveys of panels (of about 1,200 people from each graduation class), followed by mail for up to sixteen years past high school. Thus, the populations under study consist of American high school students, college students, and most men and women through age 34. The study's cohort-sequential design permits the differentiation of three types of change over time-secular, maturational and cohort- each of which tends to have quite different types of determinants, and all of which have already been found to occur for at least some drugs. In addition to monitoring many types of drug use, along with a host of factors which may help to explain secular trends in them, the project has the additional objectives of documenting the natural history of use through this part of the life cycle, of determining what transitions in social roles and social environments contribute to that history, and of determining what features of those roles and environments are of particular importance. It also seeks to examine the importance of many other hypothesized psychological, behavioral, and social determinants of drug use (including attitudes and beliefs about drugs, and various lifestyle orientations) as well as range of potential consequences of drug use (including physical health, psychological well-being, status attainment, and role performance). The fact that these multiple aims and multiple populations are encompassed in a single, integrated study is both synergistic and cost effective. The measurement content contained in the study's five different questionnaire forms is exceptionally broad. It includes: (a) the use of some 30 classes and sub-classes of licit and illicit drugs; (b) perceived availability, perceived peer norms, and attitudes and beliefs, about the use of many of these drugs; (c) a number of characteristics of the person in other domains (behaviors, attitudes, beliefs, health symptoms, achievements, lifestyle variables); and (d) many aspects of major social environments (school, job, college, home) and of role statuses and experiences (marriage, parenthood, divorce, employment, education) both during and after high school. A wide range of publications is planned.