TOBACCO USE AMONG MINORITY YOUTH: A LONGITUDINAL STUDY

描述(改编自申请人的摘要)：本申请请求 支持下一波长期持续的纵向研究。这 纵向研究检查了以下变化的病因学决定因素 青春期和青春期烟草使用和问题行为，以及 烟草使用对个人机能的影响。样本 包括444名贫困的市中心非裔美国人和波多黎各年轻人 出现在青春期早期/中期，然后是青春期晚期的成年人。 建议进行第三次数据收集，以完成以下工作：(1) 审查风险和保护因素之间的相互关系和相互作用， 包括个性、家庭、同伴、生态环境、 文化适应/文化价值观，以及非裔美国人和波多黎各人 身份识别，因为它们影响烟草的使用过程 (即稳定、变化)、非法吸毒和青少年犯罪 (2)研究早期使用烟草对年轻人的影响 内部和人际功能。对年轻人的个别采访 成年受试者将由训练有素的种族匹配的面试者进行指导。 具有足够心理测量学特性的量表，用于测量独立性 变量将根据面试日程而定。主要分析 技术将包括LISREL、层次回归分析和回归 分析和潜在增长模型。这项研究的意义在于它 基于个人、人际和问题行为数据的纵向设计 深入了解年轻人、市中心的非裔美国人和波多黎各人 里加人。这是第一次有这样的纵向数据 这一年龄段的样本具有特别的烟草使用风险。了解以下内容 有助于抵消烟草使用风险的保护性因素和了解 烟草使用对心理社会功能的影响对 确定有效预防和治疗方案的重点和时机。

DESCRIPTION (Adapted from applicant's abstract): This application requests support for the next wave of a long- term ongoing, longitudinal study . This longitudinal study examines the etiologic determinants of changes between adolescence and young adulthood in tobacco use and problem behaviors, and the consequences of tobacco use on the individual's functioning . The sample includes 444 disadvantaged inner-city African-American and Puerto Rican young adults who were seen in early/middle adolescence, and then in late adolescence. A third data collection is proposed to accomplish the following: (1) to examine the interrelations and interactions of risk and protective factors, including personality, family, peers, ecological context, acculturation/cultural values, and African American and Puerto Rican ethnic identification, as they affect the course of tobacco use (i.e.,stability,change), illegal drug use, and delinquency in these young adults; and (2) to study the consequences of early tobacco use on young adult intra- and interpersonal functioning. Individual interviews with the young adult subjects will be conducted by trained ethnically matched interviewers. Scales with adequate psychometric properties measuring the independent variables will be developed from the interview schedules. The primary analytic techniques will be LISREL, hierarchical regression analysis, and regression analysis and Latent Growth Modeling. The significance of this study lies in its longitudinal design with intrapersonal, interpersonal and problem behavior data available in depth on young adult , inner-city African-Americans and Puerto Ricans . This is the first time such longitudinal data will be available for a sample in this age group at particular risk for tobacco use. Knowledge of the protective factors which help offset the risks for tobacco use and knowledge of the consequences of tobacco use for psychosocial functioning are important for determining the foci and timing of effective prevention and treatment programs.