Do Child Physical Abuse and Adolescent Peer Relationships Influence Typologies of Illegal and Substance-Use Behaviors During Emerging Adulthood?
| Autor: | Casey R. Monroe, Susan M. Snyder |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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| Zdroj: | Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research. 4:214-244 |
| ISSN: | 1948-822X 2334-2315 |
| DOI: | 10.5243/jsswr.2013.15 |
| Popis: | This study uses latent class analysis (LCA) to explore patterns of illegal behaviors (e.g., property and violent offenses), and substance use (e.g., alcohol, tobacco, or other drugs) among emerging adults (18 to 27 years). Data include 12,677 respondents from Wave 3 of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health). Our study found that behaviors clustered into the following four classes: (a) the illegal and substance-use behaviors class (5.33%); (b) the fighting and substance-use class (5.24%); (c) the substance use class (28.30%); and (d) the normative class (61.12%). The analysis also incorporates indicator variables from Wave 1 onto the latent classes using the 3-step approach. Emerging adults most likely to be in the illegal and substance-use behaviors class with the highest prevalence of illegal behaviors were male; Black; younger; had histories of childhood physical abuse; or had friends at Wave 1 who drank, smoked, or used marijuana. Similarly, those most likely to be in the fig... |
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