Mexican-Origin Youth Substance Use Trajectories: Associations with Cultural and Family Factors

Autor/inn/en	Cruz, Rick A.; King, Kevin M.; Mechammil, Molly; Bámaca-Colbert, Mayra; Robins, Richard W.
Titel	Mexican-Origin Youth Substance Use Trajectories: Associations with Cultural and Family Factors
Quelle	In: Developmental Psychology, 54 (2018) 1, S.111-126 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Cruz, Rick A.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0012-1649
DOI	10.1037/dev0000387
Schlagwörter	Mexican Americans; Substance Abuse; Marijuana; Alcohol Abuse; Drinking; Cultural Influences; Family Influence; Parent Child Relationship; Parenting Styles; Preadolescents; Language Usage; Spanish; English (Second Language); At Risk Persons; Multivariate Analysis; Acculturation; Rating Scales; Interviews; Statistical Analysis; California; Acculturation Rating Scale for Mexican Americans + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hispanoamerikaner; Drug use; Drug consomption; Drogenkonsum; Trinken; Cultural influence; Kultureinfluss; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Pre-adolescence; Präadoleszenz; Sprachgebrauch; Spanisch; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Risikogruppe; Multivariate Analyse; Akkulturation; Rating-Skala; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Statistische Analyse; Kalifornien
Abstract	The current study identified alcohol and cannabis use trajectories among a sample of Mexican-origin youth and examined cultural and familial correlates from childhood to adolescence. Mexican-origin youth (N = 674) from Northern California were assessed annually from ages 10 to 17 (8 waves). Latent class growth modeling examined variability in developmental trajectories for last 3-month alcohol and cannabis use frequency. Analyses also examined between-trajectory differences in youth's cultural practices and values, family cultural conflict, general parent-child conflict, and parental monitoring at 4 time points from ages 10 to 16. Analyses resulted in a 4-class model for alcohol use, comprising nonusers (62%), early-increasing (10%), adolescent-limited (11%), and late-onset (17%) subgroups, and a 4-class model for cannabis use, including nonusers (74%), early-increasing (8%), occasional use (16%), and high-declining (2%) subgroups. Findings suggested that early language use (higher English at age 10 and lower Spanish at age 12) was a temporally distal marker for several alcohol and cannabis use trajectories, whereas lower traditional family values at ages 14 and 16 were associated with several classes characterized by early substance use. Elevations in familial (parent-child conflict, parental monitoring) risk factors co-occurred in time and generally suggested temporally proximal connections with substance use behavior. Further, there was evidence that a less prominent decline in certain protective factors (e.g., father monitoring) was associated with reductions in substance use. These findings inform the literature by describing youth subgroups with variable risk for substance use development, and suggest modifiable risk factors associated with more frequent substance use trajectories. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01