The impact of longitudinal social networks on young adult substance use and misuse

纵向社交网络对年轻人物质使用和滥用的影响

• 批准号: 10741393
• 负责人: Cassie Leigh McMillan
• 金额: $ 25.64万
• 依托单位: NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-07-01 至 2025-05-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10741393
• 关键词: Address; Adolescence; Adolescent; Adult; Alcohol consumption; Alcohols; Behavior; Benefits and Risks; Cessation of life; Characteristics; Communities; Data; Data Set; Development; Drug usage; Emotional; Evolution; Friends; Friendships; Future; Gender; Goals; Health; Health behavior; Individual; Intervention; Life Cycle Stages; Link; Longitudinal Studies; Maintenance; Marijuana; Modeling; Names; National Institute of Drug Abuse; Outcome; Overdose; Participant; Pattern; Peer Group; Persons; Pharmaceutical Preparations; Population; Positioning Attribute; Prevention program; Process; Reporting; Research; Resources; Respondent; Risk; Risk Behaviors; Risk Factors; Role; Rural; Schools; Sexuality; Shapes; Social Network; Social support; Statistical Methods; Structure; Students; Surveys; Testing; Time; Tobacco; Vacuum; Work; Youth; adolescent substance use; community based research; community partnership; contagion; course development; demographics; design; early adolescence; experience; future epidemic; high risk; high school; illicit drug use; improved; interest; intervention program; lifetime risk; peer; peer networks; prevent; promote resilience; research study; resilience research; response; risk mitigation; school environment; secondary analysis; social; substance misuse; substance use; substance use prevention; substance user; success; theories; trait; young adult

PROJECT SUMMARY / ABSTRACT Adolescent substance use is one of the strongest predictors of drug overdose and death during adulthood. However, most individuals who initiate tobacco, alcohol, marijuana, and other drug use do not report problematic substance use at later points in the life course. To promote healthy substance use trajectories and prevent the social contagion of substance use, it is necessary to identify key factors that increase young people’s odds of problematic use in adulthood. In previous research, peer characteristics and relationships have emerged as important predictors of substance use and misuse in the short term. However, this line of work has yet to consider how adolescent peer network structures, as well as their stability over time, carry implications for patterns of substance use and misuse throughout the life course. The proposed research aims to address this gap by leveraging data from the Promoting School-Community Partnerships to Enhance Resilience (PROSPER) study. PROSPER is a large longitudinal study that followed individuals from adolescence to adulthood in rural US communities, a population that remains understudied in substance use research. Through a data matching initiative with the PROSPER data, the proposed project will develop a friendship network dataset across a uniquely long period of time from early adolescence to young adulthood. The resulting linkages will allow for the analysis of new research questions about substance misuse, network structure, and tie stability during the transition to adulthood. In addition, we will be able to examine how these relationships vary according to individual demographic characteristics (e.g., gender, sexuality) and the network processes that define a youth’s school-community context (e.g., the popularity of substance users), which will be quantified through state-of-the-art statistical methods. We will achieve these goals through two specific aims. Aim 1 evaluates a theoretical-informed model that examines the extent to which direct adolescent friendship ties impact substance use and misuse in young adulthood. Aim 2 considers whether young adults are more likely to report substance use and misuse according to macro-structures of indirect ties and the broader contexts of their adolescent friendship networks. Across both aims, we will also consider how these relationships vary according to whether young people maintain or dissolve their adolescent friendships after leaving high school. Results from these secondary analyses will enhance our understanding of the risk factors associated with substance use and misuse throughout the life course. Additionally, our findings will help guide the identification of optimal network targets for future interventions that aim to reduce long-term, problematic substance use in young adult populations. Informed by our results, prevention programs will be able to leverage healthy social ties and discourage the formation of high-risk relationships, which will enhance their ability to prevent future epidemics related to substance use behaviors.

项目总结/摘要 青少年药物使用是成年期药物过量和死亡的最强预测因素之一。 然而，大多数人谁发起烟草，酒精，大麻，和其他药物的使用不报告 在生命历程的后期使用有问题的物质。促进健康的物质使用轨迹， 为了防止药物使用的社会传染，有必要确定增加年轻人的关键因素， 人们在成年期出现问题的几率。在以前的研究中，同伴特征和关系 已成为短期内药物使用和滥用的重要预测指标。然而，这条线 工作还没有考虑如何青少年同伴网络结构，以及他们的稳定性随着时间的推移，进行 对整个生命过程中物质使用和滥用模式的影响。拟议的研究目标 通过利用促进学校与社区伙伴关系的数据来解决这一差距， 恢复力（PROSPER）研究。PROSPER是一项大型纵向研究， 美国农村社区的青少年到成年人，这一人群在物质使用方面仍然研究不足 research.通过与PROSPER数据进行数据匹配的举措，拟议项目将开发一个 友谊网络数据集跨越了从青春期早期到成年早期的独特的长时间段。 由此产生的联系将有助于分析关于药物滥用、网络和药物滥用的新的研究问题。 结构，并在过渡到成年期的稳定性。此外，我们将能够研究这些 关系根据个体人口统计特征而变化（例如，性别、性行为）和网络 定义青少年学校-社区背景的过程（例如，物质使用者的普及），这将 通过最先进的统计方法进行量化。我们将通过以下两个具体措施实现这些目标： 目标。目标1评估了一个理论知情的模型，该模型考察了青少年直接 友谊关系影响青年人的物质使用和滥用。目标2考虑年轻人是否 更有可能根据间接联系的宏观结构报告物质使用和滥用， 他们青少年友谊网络的更广泛的背景。在这两个目标中，我们还将考虑这些目标 根据年轻人在青少年时期的友谊是维持还是解除， 离开高中这些二次分析的结果将加强我们对风险因素的理解 与整个生命过程中的物质使用和滥用相关。此外，我们的研究结果将有助于指导 确定未来干预的最佳网络目标，旨在减少长期、有问题的 在年轻的成年人中使用药物。根据我们的研究结果，预防计划将能够 利用健康的社会关系，阻止形成高风险的关系，这将提高他们的 预防未来与物质使用行为有关的流行病的能力。