Role of Psychopathology in Adolescent Problem Drug Use

说明（由申请者提供）：该提案寻求两年的支助，以便利用家庭项目的数据进行二次分析，该项目是对1993年学生进入六年级时组成的429名农村青年及其家庭进行的一项性别均衡的小组研究。青少年和他们的父母进行了采访，并观察了在结构化的互动六次跨越七年。社会发展模式和发展的精神病理学的角度来看，本研究将探讨的相对（添加剂）和交互作用的行为问题和抑郁症状对物质使用在整个青春期和18岁的问题使用。这项研究还将探讨青少年时期的社会发展过程在多大程度上介导了精神病理学对物质使用和问题使用的影响。此外，将检验假设关系中的性别差异，并将背景变量（如父母精神病理学）纳入分析。研究结果将通过阐明可用于早期识别需要选择性预防服务的高危个体的变量，以及通过确定调解精神病理学和问题使用之间联系的可塑性社会发展过程，为青少年药物滥用预防提供信息。

DESCRIPTION (provided by the applicant): This proposal seeks two years of support to conduct secondary analyses using data from Project Family, a gender-balanced panel study of 429 rural youths and their families constituted in 1993 when students entered the sixth grade. Adolescents and their parents were interviewed and observed in structured interactions on six occasions across seven years. Guided by the social development model and a developmental psychopathology perspective, this study will examine the relative (additive) and interactive effects of conduct problems and depressive symptoms on substance use throughout adolescence and on problem use at age 18. The study also will examine the extent to which social developmental processes during adolescence mediate the effects of psychopathology on substance use and problem use. Further, gender differences in the hypothesized relations will be tested, and background variables, such as parental psychopathology, will be included in the analyses. Findings from the study will inform drug abuse prevention for adolescents by elucidating variables that may be used for the early identification of at-risk individuals in need of selective prevention services, and by identifying malleable social developmental processes that mediate the link between psychopathology and problem use.