Race and Family Factors in Adolescent Drug Use

青少年吸毒的种族和家庭因素

• 批准号: 6630628
• 负责人: Clifford L Broman
• 金额: $ 23.72万
• 依托单位: MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-05-01 至 2005-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6630628
• 关键词: African American; adolescence (12-20); alcoholism /alcohol abuse; behavioral /social science research tag; caucasian American; child rearing; clinical research; drug abuse; drug abuse prevention; family structure /dynamics; human data; meta analysis; peer group; racial /ethnic difference; religion; social problems; social psychology; socioeconomics; socioenvironment

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The objective of this proposed research is to investigate family factors and other social contexts in relationship to the perception and use of drugs among African-American and white adolescents. Such information will be useful for the design and implementation of preventive intervention programs for black adolescents. The task of designing preventive interventions for drug problems for black youth is hampered by the fact that more research is needed. While several studies have provided evidence concerning drug use and related problems among black youth, questions remain about some of the factors hypothesized to be critical to the phenomenon of drug use. The proposed research requests two years of funding to investigate differences in the use of drugs and alcohol by black and white adolescents. The proposed study has three broad aims. The first is to investigate the role of parenting behavior and practices for black and white adolescents as a factor in the use of drugs. The second is to investigate how parenting behavior and practices in the context of different family structures may be a factor in the use of drugs for black and white adolescents. Because of possible links with family socioeconomic status (SES), we will also investigate family SES as a factor in adolescent drug use. The third aim is to investigate the possible mediating role of peer use, religiosity and neighborhood cohesion between parenting behavior and practices and drug use for black and white adolescents. This proposed research is structured as a secondary data analysis of existing survey data. The data we propose to use to examine these issues is from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (AddHealth), a nationally representative study of adolescents in grades 7 through 12 in the United States in 1995. The study was designed to investigate adolescent health, health behavior and relationships, and other issues. The data are longitudinal in design, and two waves of study data are available. Approximately 20,000 adolescents were surveyed, and additional data is available from the parents of the adolescents.

描述（由申请人提供）：这项拟议研究的目的是调查与非裔美国和白人青少年对毒品的看法和使用有关的家庭因素和其他社会背景。这些信息将有助于设计和实施针对黑人青少年的预防性干预计划。为黑人青年设计毒品问题的预防性干预措施的任务因需要进行更多研究而受到阻碍。虽然一些研究提供了有关黑人青少年吸毒和相关问题的证据，但对于一些假设对吸毒现象至关重要的因素仍然存在疑问。拟议的研究需要两年的资金来调查黑人和白人青少年使用毒品和酒精的差异。拟议的研究有三大目标。第一个是调查黑人和白人青少年的养育行为和做法作为吸毒因素的作用。第二个是调查不同家庭结构背景下的养育行为和做法如何成为黑人和白人青少年吸毒的一个因素。由于可能与家庭社会经济地位 (SES) 存在联系，我们还将调查家庭社会经济地位作为青少年吸毒的一个因素。第三个目标是调查同伴使用、宗教信仰和邻里凝聚力在黑人和白人青少年的养育行为和实践与吸毒之间可能的中介作用。 这项拟议的研究是对现有调查数据的二次数据分析。我们建议用来检验这些问题的数据来自国家青少年健康纵向研究 (AddHealth)，这是 1995 年对美国 7 至 12 年级青少年进行的一项具有全国代表性的研究。该研究旨在调查青少年健康、健康行为和人际关系以及其他问题。数据是纵向设计的，有两波研究数据可用。大约 20,000 名青少年接受了调查，并且可以从青少年的父母处获得更多数据。