Substance Use Consequences of School Disengagement

脱离学校的药物使用后果

• 批准号: 7265682
• 负责人: KIMBERLY L HENRY
• 金额: $ 4.6万
• 依托单位: COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY
• 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/7265682
• 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最明显的风险和卫生行为行为的保护因素。研究表明，脱离学校的学生更有可能使用酒精，烟草和其他药物。但是，已经很少工作来描述多元，纵向和全面模型中学校脱离接触和物质使用之间的关系。拟议的研究构成了NIDA指导的研究科学家发展奖的要求，以提供培训和研究经验，这将使PI能够彻底检查学校脱离接触的模式和过程，以制定一个概念模型，以描述风险，保护性，保护性，保护性，保护性，保护性模型和学校环境的弹性因素。作为拟议的研究计划的一部分，将使用增长混合模型来检查小学到高中的学校脱离接触模式，该策略识别出具有类似变化轨迹的不同个人群体。这些轨迹的相关性将通过评估先例（例如性别，种族），后果（例如，药物滥用的可能性）以及时间变化的协变量（例如，与犯罪者的同伴参与，父母监测的时间）。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学校脱离接触和物质使用之间的关系。此外，将研究在与家庭和同龄人有关的其他重要因素的情况下，药物使用与学校问题发展之间的时间顺序和相互影响。候选人的目标是绘制一个新的实质研究领域，开发一个综合模型，描述了随着时间的流逝，学校脱离接触会影响物质使用的机制，成为青少年风险行为和先进纵向方法论和先进的纵向方法的三个精湛学者的学徒，以及准备作为独立研究人员运作。