Conceptualizing protective family context and its effect on substance use: Comparisons across diverse ethnic-racial youth
| Autor: | Emma Schillinger, Kevin Constante, Yajuan Si, Edward D. Huntley, Daniel P. Keating, Christine Wagner |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Adolescent Substance-Related Disorders Racial Groups Ethnic group 030508 substance abuse Medicine (miscellaneous) Context (language use) Tobacco Products Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems Article Developmental psychology 03 medical and health sciences Psychiatry and Mental health Family dynamics 0302 clinical medicine Ethnicity Humans Female 030212 general & internal medicine Substance use 0305 other medical science Psychology |
| Zdroj: | Subst Abus |
| ISSN: | 1547-0164 0889-7077 |
| Popis: | Background Although family behaviors are known to be important for buffering youth against substance use, research in this area often evaluates a particular type of family interaction and how it shapes adolescents’ behaviors, when it is likely that youth experience the co-occurrence of multiple types of family behaviors that may be protective. Methods The current study ( N = 1716, 10th and 12th graders, 55% female) examined associations between protective family context, a latent variable comprised of five different measures of family behaviors, and past 12 months substance use: alcohol, cigarettes, marijuana, and e-cigarettes. Results A multi-group measurement invariance assessment supported protective family context as a coherent latent construct with partial (metric) measurement invariance among Black, Latinx, and White youth. A multi-group path model indicated that protective family context was significantly associated with less substance use for all youth, but of varying magnitudes across ethnic-racial groups. Conclusion These results emphasize the importance of evaluating psychometric properties of family-relevant latent variables on the basis of group membership in order to draw appropriate inferences on how such family variables relate to substance use among diverse samples. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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