Parenting, Adolescent Substance Use, and Delinquency

描述（申请人提供）：1997年全国青年纵向调查次级数据分析（以下简称NLSY 97）提出了解决几个研究问题的跨时间关系的特点之间的父母（包括父母的风格，监控和支持），以及物质使用的轨迹（烟草，酒精，大麻）和犯罪与全国样本的早期青少年过渡到中期青春期。将采用队列顺序设计来捕捉1997年11-14岁青少年在1997年至2000年四波年度测量中药物使用和犯罪行为的变化模式。这种队列顺序或加速纵向设计将有助于对11-17岁的物质使用和犯罪行为的影响因素进行建模。本提案中重点关注的子样本将包括1997年年龄在11-14岁之间的4，095名儿童，并包括对黑人（24%，n=986）和西班牙裔（21%，n=863）青年的过度抽样。NLSY 97包含了更多的年龄较大的青少年（1997年为15岁及以上），但由于设计原因，许多与该提案目标有实质性关系的育儿措施并没有在不同时期得到一致的实施，因此没有被选择纳入本申请。 本研究的目的是：（1）评估父母教养维度对青少年早期犯罪和物质使用增长的影响，以确定这些影响在种族和性别群体中是否相似;（2）使用交叉滞后潜变量分析和双潜增长模型来研究青少年犯罪和物质使用之间的双向关系;以及（3）进行潜在增长混合模型与拖欠和物质使用变量，以确定异质轨迹，并确定其共同和独特的预测。其他重要的预测因素将被列入上述特定的统计模型将包括广泛的社会经济地位变量，同伴偏差，和早期暴露于目睹暴力。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Secondary data analyses of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth-1997 (hereafter referred to as NLSY97) are proposed to address several research questions related to the cross-temporal relationships between features of parenting (including parental style, monitoring, and support), and trajectories of substance use (tobacco, alcohol, marijuana) and delinquency with a national sample of early adolescents in transition to middle adolescence. A cohort-sequential design will be used to capture patterns of change in substance use and delinquency across four annual waves of measurement spanning 1997-2000 for youth 11-14 years of age in 1997. This cohort-sequential, or accelerated longitudinal, design will facilitate the modeling of trajectors of substance use and delinquency from ages 11-17. The subsample focused on in this proposal will include 4,095 children who were ages 11-14 in 1997 and includes an oversampling of black (24%, n=986) and Hispanic (21%, n=863) youth. The NLSY97 contains a larger number of older adolescents (ages 15 and above in 1997), but by design many of the parenting measures of substantive interest to the goals of this proposal were not consistently administered across time and hence were not selected for inclusion in this application. The goals of the proposal are: (1) to evaluate the influence of parenting dimensions on the growth of delinquency and substance use in early adolescence to determine if these influences are similar across ethnic and gender groups; (2) to examine bidirectional relationships between delinquency and substance use across time using both cross-lagged latent variable analyses and dual latent growth modeling; and (3) to conduct latent growth mixture modeling with delinquency and substance use variables to identify heterogeneous trajectories and to identify their common and unique predictors. Other significant predictors to be included in the specified statistical models enumerated above will include a broad range of SES variables, peer deviance, and early exposure to witnessing violence.