DRUG USE AND LIFESTYLES OF AMERICAN YOUTH

该提案要求继续监测五年 未来，一个正在进行的气象学研究和报告项目。 该项目始于1975年，作为一项基础研究， 也是该国可靠信息的主要来源之一 毒品使用的趋势。 它基于两个相互关联的系列， 使用具有国家代表性的样本进行的调查：（a）每年 对高中高年级学生的调查（135所高中每年约17 000人） （B）每年对约1，200个小组进行跟进调查 每个毕业班的人），然后是邮件， 高中毕业十六年了 因此，研究中的人群 由美国高中生、大学生和 大多数男性和女性都在34岁之前。 该研究的队列顺序设计允许区分 随着时间的推移，有三种类型的变化-长期的、成熟的和群体的变化- 其中每一种往往有完全不同类型的决定因素， 所有这些都已经被发现至少发生在 一些药物。 除了监测多种类型的药物使用外， 沿着着一系列的因素，这些因素可能有助于解释 在他们的发展趋势，该项目有额外的目标， 通过这一部分记录使用的自然历史， 生命周期，确定社会角色的转变， 社会环境影响了历史， 这些角色和环境的特征是什么 重要性 它还试图审查许多重要性， 其他假设的心理、行为和社会 吸毒的决定因素（包括对吸毒的态度和信念） 药物，和各种生活方式的取向），以及范围 吸毒的潜在后果（包括身体健康， 心理健康、地位获得和角色 性能）。 事实上，这些多重目标和多重 一个单一的综合研究涵盖了两个人群， 具有协同作用和成本效益。 本研究的五个不同的测量内容 调查表的形式非常广泛。 它包括：（a） 使用约30类和子类合法和非法药物;（B） 感知的可用性，感知的同伴规范，态度和 （c）许多人对使用这些药物有不同的看法; 人在其他领域的特征（行为， 态度、信仰、健康症状、成就、生活方式 （d）主要社会环境的许多方面 （学校，工作，大学，家庭）和角色地位和经验 （婚姻、为人父母、离婚、就业、教育） 在高中期间和之后。 广泛的出版物是 计划好了

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.