University of Pittsburgh.
Dev Psychopathol. 2014 Feb;26(1):125-40. doi: 10.1017/S0954579413000539. Epub 2013 Sep 13.
This study examined developmentally salient risk and protective factors of adolescent substance use assessed during early childhood and early adolescence using a sample of 310 low-income boys. Child problem behavior and proximal family risk and protective factors (i.e., parenting and maternal depression) during early childhood, as well as child and family factors and peer deviant behavior during adolescence, were explored as potential precursors to later substance use during adolescence using structural equation modeling. Results revealed that early childhood risk and protective factors (i.e., child externalizing problems, mothers' depressive symptomatology, and nurturant parenting) were indirectly related to substance use at the age of 17 via risk and protective factors during early and middle adolescence (i.e., parental knowledge and externalizing problems). The implications of these findings for early prevention and intervention are discussed.
本研究使用 310 名低收入男孩的样本，考察了儿童早期和青少年早期评估的青少年物质使用的发展显著风险和保护因素。使用结构方程模型探讨了儿童早期的问题行为和近端家庭风险和保护因素（即育儿和母亲抑郁），以及青少年时期的儿童和家庭因素和同伴偏差行为，这些因素可能是后来青少年时期物质使用的前兆。结果表明，儿童早期的风险和保护因素（即儿童的外化问题、母亲的抑郁症状和养育性育儿）通过青少年早期和中期的风险和保护因素（即父母的知识和外化问题）与 17 岁时的物质使用间接相关。讨论了这些发现对早期预防和干预的意义。
