Gender Differences in Consequences of Teenage Drug Use

青少年吸毒后果的性别差异

• 批准号: 6772168
• 负责人: Kerry M Green
• 金额: $ 5.4万
• 依托单位: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-04-01 至 2005-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6772168
• 关键词: African American; adolescence (12-20); behavioral /social science research tag; child psychology; child rearing; clinical research; data collection methodology /evaluation; drug abuse; friendships; gender difference; human subject; interpersonal relations; interview; job performance; longitudinal human study; marriage /marital status; mathematical model; outcomes research; role; social integration; social psychology; socioeconomics; statistics /biometry

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The purpose of the study is to examine gender differences in the effects of adolescent drug use on young adulthood social role functioning. This study will provide a better understanding of how a behavioral life-style of drug involvement during adolescence affects an individual's social and interpersonal development and role fulfillment beyond the years of adolescence, and specifically, how males and females are impacted differently. The importance of focusing on the consequence of adolescent drug use is highlighted by the widespread nature of the problem, the potential devastating effects of continued use, and the lack of adequate research and theory on long-term consequences. Though it is generally assumed that drug use is problematic, there is a lack of evidence (1) demonstrating negative effects of drug use in adolescence, (2) connecting specific drugs to specific outcomes, and (3) comparing outcomes in males and females. An exploration of whether experimental drug use has negative long-term consequences and understanding gender differences in its consequences will help improve prevention programs and other public health activities. Though the range of potential consequences is tremendous, the proposed study, based on Life Course Theory, will focus on outcomes in three areas: (1) job functioning, (2) social integration (community involvement and friendship formation), and (3) family formation and stability (marriage and parenting). The proposed study will focus on gender differences with particular attention to consequences for female adolescents who use drugs. Very little effort has been devoted to understanding how the consequences of drug use differ by gender. Adolescent girls are increasingly becoming involved in using drugs; however, there is a lack of knowledge of whether the consequences are the same for males and females. As men and women have historically had different roles in society, it is expected that adolescent drug use will affect females differently than males later in life. This study will be conducted by examining data collected through interviews with an entire cohort of first graders in the Woodlawn community of Chicago who were followed from 1966-67 to the present time. Participants are African American and were mostly economically disadvantaged when the study began. Overall, they reported extensive involvement in drug use and varying degrees of later success. Structural equation modeling and regression will be employed to analyze the effect of adolescent drug use on multiple outcome variables.

描述（由申请人提供）：该研究的目的是检查青少年药物使用对年轻成年社会角色功能的影响的性别差异。这项研究将更好地理解青春期毒品参与的行为生活方式如何影响个人的社会和人际发展以及超越青春期以后的角色实现，尤其是男性和女性如何受到不同的影响。关注青春期药物使用后果的重要性是由问题的广泛性质，持续使用的潜在毁灭性影响以及对长期后果的缺乏适当的研究和理论所强调的。尽管通常认为药物使用是有问题的，但缺乏证据（1）证明吸毒在青春期的负面影响，（2）将特定药物与特定结果联系起来，以及（3）比较男性和女性的结果。探索实验药物是否会产生负面的长期后果并了解其后果的性别差异将有助于改善预防计划和其他公共卫生活动。 尽管潜在后果的范围是巨大的，但基于生命课程理论的拟议研究将侧重于三个领域的结果：（1）工作功能，（2）社会融合（社区参与和友谊形成），以及（3）家庭形成和稳定（婚姻和育儿）。拟议的研究将重点介绍性别差异，并特别关注使用药物的女性青少年的后果。很少努力地了解吸毒的后果如何因性别而异。青春期女孩越来越多地参与使用药物。但是，缺乏了解男性和女性的后果是否相同的知识。由于男性和女人在历史上在社会中扮演着不同的角色，因此预计青少年吸毒的影响与以后生活的男性不同。 这项研究将通过检查芝加哥伍德劳恩社区的整个一年级学生的访谈来进行研究，从1966 - 67年到现在。参与者是非裔美国人，研究开始时大多在经济上处于不利地位。总体而言，他们报告了广泛参与药物使用和以后的成功程度。将采用结构方程建模和回归来分析青少年药物使用对多种结果变量的影响。