DRUG USE AND LIFESTYLE OF AMERICAN YOUTH

描述：(申请人摘要) 这项提案寻求将《监测未来》延续五年， 正在进行的流行病学研究和报告项目。从1975年开始， 该项目是国家可靠的信息来源之一 青少年和青壮年的吸毒趋势，以及基本的 研究性学习。将对具有全国代表性的样本进行调查 对(A)8、10和12年级学生(约140所学校的17,000名学生)进行了调查 每年每个年级)；(B)19-32岁、35岁和 40个(邮寄调查)；及。(C)从八年级班级抽选的展板。 1991-1993年(每两年邮寄调查一次)。 这项研究的队列序贯设计允许区分 随着时间的推移有三种类型的变化--历史的、成熟的和队列的--每一种 它们往往有不同类型的决定因素，而所有这些 已经发现至少在某些药物中会发生这种情况。除了监控之外 毒品使用和可能有助于解释历史趋势和队列的因素 使用的差异，该项目的目标是记录 中年吸毒的自然历史，决定了什么 社会角色和社会环境的转变有助于 观察到成熟的变化，并确定这些角色的哪些特征 而环境问题尤为突出。这项研究还试图 确定许多其他假设的心理学的重要性， 吸毒的行为、社会决定因素(包括态度和 对毒品的信仰，以及各种生活方式取向)以及一系列 毒品使用的潜在后果(包括身体健康、 心理幸福感、地位获得和角色表现)。这个 这些多个目标和多个人口被包含在一个 单一、综合的研究既具有协同作用，又具有成本效益。 这项研究的广泛测量包括：(A)启动、使用和 停止大量合法和非法药物；(B)态度和 对这些药物的信念，以及感知的可获得性，同伴规范， 和榜样团体之间的规范；(C)其他行为和个人 特征(犯罪、在校表现、计划和抱负、 (D)关键社会环境的各个方面(家庭、工作、学校)和 社会角色状态、经历和转变(婚姻、怀孕、 为人父母、离婚)。研究结果将对以下方面产生重大影响 通过以下途径了解和预防青少年吸毒和滥用 成年中年。

DESCRIPTION: (Applicant's Abstract) This proposal seeks a five-year continuation of Monitoring the Future, an ongoing epidemiological research and reporting project. Begun in 1975, the project is one of the nation's major sources of reliable information on trends in drug use among adolescents and young adults, as well as a basic research study. Surveys of nationally representative samples will be conducted for (a) 8th, 10th, and 12th graders (17,000 in about 140 schools per year per grade); (b) panels of high school graduates aged 19-32, 35, and 40 (surveyed by mail); and (c) panels drawn from the 8th grade classes of 1991-1993 (surveyed biennially by mail). The study's cohort-sequential design permits the differentiation of three types of change over time-historical, maturational, and cohort--each of which tends to have different types of determinants, and all of which have been found to occur for at least some drugs. In addition to monitoring drug use and factors which may help to explain historical trends and cohort differences in use, the project has the objectives of documenting the natural history of drug use through middle adulthood, determining what transitions in social roles and social environments contribute to the maturational changes observed, and determining what features of those roles and environments are particularly salient. The study also seeks to ascertain 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 a 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 study's extensive measurement covers (a) initiation, use, and cessation for a great many licit and illicit drugs; (b) attitudes and beliefs about these drugs, as well as perceived availability, peer norms, and norms among role model groups; (c) other behaviors and individual characteristics (delinquency, school performance, plans and aspirations, etc.), and (d) aspects of key social environments (home, work, school) and social role statuses, experiences, and transitions (marriage, pregnancy, parenthood, divorce). Study results will have major implications for understanding and preventing drug use and abuse from adolescence through middle adulthood.