Substance Use Consequences of School Disengagement

脱离学校的药物使用后果

• 批准号: 6868661
• 负责人: KIMBERLY L HENRY
• 金额: $ 9.41万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-03-10 至 2009-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6868661
• 关键词: absenteeism; academic achievement; adolescence (12-20); behavioral /social science research tag; disease /disorder proneness /risk; elementary school; family structure /dynamics; human data; juvenile delinquency; secondary schools; social psychology; socioenvironment; student dropouts; substance abuse related behavior; substance abuse related disorder

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): An adolescent's school context includes some of the most salient risk and protective factors for health-compromising behaviors. Research suggests that students who are disengaged from school are more likely to use alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs; however, a paucity of work has been done to describe the relationship between school disengagement and substance use in a multivariate, longitudinal, and comprehensive model. The proposed research constitutes a request for a NIDA Mentored Research Scientist Development Award to provide training and research experience that will allow the PI to thoroughly examine the patterns and processes of school disengagement in an effort to formulate a conceptual model that describes the risk, protective, and resiliency factors of the school context. As part of the proposed research plan, the patterns of school disengagement from elementary school to high school will be examined using a growth mixture model, a strategy that identifies distinct groups of individuals possessing a similar trajectory of change over time. The relevance of these trajectories will be evaluated by assessing the antecedents (e.g. gender, ethnicity), consequences (e.g. likelihood of substance abuse), and time varying covariates (e.g. involvement with delinquent peers, parental monitoring) of membership in each distinct trajectory class. The proposed research will allow the PI to apply state-of-the-art statistical techniques to examine the relationship between school disengagement and substance use in two, large longitudinal datasets. In addition, the temporal ordering and reciprocal effects between drug use and the development of school problems within the context of other important factors related to the family and peers will be examined. The candidates goal is to canvass a new substantive research area, develop a comprehensive model that describes the mechanisms by which school disengagement over time affects substance use, be an apprentice to three superb scholars in the field of adolescent risk behavior and advanced longitudinal methodology, and prepare to operate as an independent researcher.

描述（由申请人提供）： 青少年的学校环境包括一些危害健康行为的最显着的风险和保护因素。研究表明，辍学的学生更有可能使用酒精、烟草和其他药物；然而，很少有人用多变量、纵向和综合模型来描述学校脱离接触与药物滥用之间的关系。拟议的研究构成了对 NIDA 指导研究科学家发展奖的请求，以提供培训和研究经验，使 PI 能够彻底检查学校脱离的模式和过程，努力制定一个概念模型，描述风险、保护性、以及学校环境的弹性因素。作为拟议研究计划的一部分，将从小学到高中的学校脱离模式将使用增长混合模型进行研究，该策略可识别随着时间的推移具有相似变化轨迹的不同个体群体。这些轨迹的相关性将通过评估每个不同轨迹类别的成员资格的前因（例如性别、种族）、后果（例如药物滥用的可能性）和随时间变化的协变量（例如与犯罪同伴的关系、父母的监督）来评估。拟议的研究将允许 PI 应用最先进的统计技术来检查两个大型纵向数据集中的学校脱离和物质使用之间的关系。此外，在与家庭和同龄人相关的其他重要因素的背景下，吸毒与学校问题的发展之间的时间顺序和相互影响也将得到审查。候选人的目标是探索一个新的实质性研究领域，开发一个全面的模型来描述随着时间的推移学校脱离接触影响物质使用的机制，成为青少年危险行为和先进纵向方法领域三位优秀学者的学徒，以及准备作为独立研究员开展工作。