EFFECTS OF DRUG ABUSE ON YOUNG BLACK ADULT FUNCTIONING

描述（改编自申请人摘要）：本研究提出， 研究药物使用对一个队列的心理社会功能的后果， 来自全国围产期合作组织的非洲裔美国成年人 项目广泛的前瞻性和回顾性信息已被 在这个队列中收集了从婴儿期到 幼儿期、青春期和24岁和26.5岁的青年期。的 这项研究现在试图将数据收集范围扩大到37岁， 有关八个社会心理领域的信息， 成年期：l。家庭的形成和家庭关系; 2。 教育和生计追求（就业、职业和收入）; 3. 传统行为和社会融合; 4。反社会行为和 与越轨同伴的关系; 5.性行为和艾滋病危险行为; 6.非法 犯罪和暴力行为; 7.身体健康和发病率; 和8.注意力缺陷多动症（ADHD）。主 本研究的重点是探讨潜在的中介机制，通过 早期和慢性药物使用影响行为和调整， 指定的域。建议在成年期进行随访， 职业和就业因素对许多非洲裔美国人来说是沉重的负担， 允许检查和确定可能促进 剥夺社会机构的公民权，这可能是发展性的， 与犯罪和暴力行为的病因学有关。而且 将特别强调药物使用/滥用在以下方面的作用： 随后的暴力行为，包括确定具体类型的 毒品，其使用易诱发或促成暴力行为（例如， 可卡因/快克与酒精），以及涉及哪些类型的药物， 暴力行为的类型（身体攻击与武器犯罪）。使用 适当的多元比较分析策略2理论模型 将被对比：发育中断（Baumrind & Moselle 19855和 伪成熟度（纽科姆和Bentler 1988），因为它们在解释 吸毒对心理社会功能的长期影响。

DESCRIPTION (Adapted from the Applicant's Abstract): This study proposes to examine the consequences of drug use on psychosocial functioning in a cohort of African-American adults drawn from the National Collaborative Perinatal Project. A wide range of prospective and retrospective information has been collected on this cohort at four developmental periods spanning from infancy to early childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood at ages 24 and 26.5. The study now seeks to extend the data collection to age 37 and to gather information with respect to eight domains of psychosocial relevant to the transition to adulthood: l. Family formation and family relationships; 2. Educational and livelihood pursuits (employment, occupation and earnings); 3. Conventional behavior and social integration; 4. Antisocial behavior and relations with deviant peers; 5. Sexual and AIDS risk behavior; 6. Illegal criminal and violent behavior; 7. Physical health and morbidity; and 8. mental health including attention deficity-hyperactivity (ADHD). A main emphasis of this study is to examine the potential mediating mechanism through which early and chronic drug use influence behavior and adjustment in the eight specified domains. The proposed followup in adulthood is timed to coincide when career and employment factors weigh heavily on many African-Americans, and will permit examination and identification of key risk mechanisms that may foster disenfranchisement from social institutions and that may be developmentally linked with the etiology of criminal and violent behaviors. Moreover, there will be a special emphasis on the role of substance use/abuse in regard to subsequent violent behavior, including determination of the specific types of drugs, the use of which predispose to or precipitate violent behavior (e.g. cocaine/crack vs. alcohol), and which types of drugs are implicated in which types of violent behavior (physical assault vs. weapons offenses). Using appropriate multivariate comparative analytic strategies 2 theoretical models will be contrasted: developmental hiatus (Baumrind & Moselle 19855 and pseudomaturity (Newcomb & Bentler 1988) for their potential in explaining the long-term effects of drug use on psychosocial functioning.