DRUG USE AMONG HISPANIC EMERGING ADULTS
Albertina Lourdes
University Of Southern Californiacity: Los Angeles country: United States (us)
Grant 5R01DA016310-09 from National Institute On Drug Abuse
Abstract: Among Hispanic adolescents, cultural factors such as acculturation, perceived discrimination, and acculturative stress are risk factors for drug use. Previous studies suggest that the effects of acculturation on drug use may be mediated by family functioning; when adolescents acculturate more rapidly than their parents, the parent- child acculturation discrepancy can lead to breakdowns in family communication and cohesion and increases in family conflict, which in turn can lead to risky behaviors such as drug use among the adolescents. Although there is considerable information about the role of family acculturation patterns in drug use among Hispanic adolescents, we do not know how family acculturation patterns affect adolescents as they transition into the next stage of life, emerging adulthood. Emerging adulthood, a provisional stage in which young adults try out adult roles but may not become firmly entrenched in them, is characterized by identity exploration, residential instability, self-focus, a subjective feeling of being between adolescence and true adulthood, and increased opportunities. In general, individuals who navigate this transition smoothly emerge with a more developed sense of identity, successful interpersonal relationships, new life roles, and minimal levels of substance use. However, the high level of independence and low level of social constraints that occur during emerging adulthood also make this a high-risk period for drug use and other problem behaviors. Understanding how factors in adolescence affect drug use in early adulthood can lead to better intervention efforts for adolescents. More research is needed to determine how cultural factors influence the transition to emerging adulthood among Hispanics and to identify the risk factors for escalation of drug use during this pivotal transition. This continuation application proposes to follow an established cohort of Hispanic adolescents (12th graders in the 2008-2009 school year) for an additional 4 years to identify the predictors of their drug use trajectories during the transition to emerging adulthood. The Specific Aims of the proposed research are the following (1) Conduct an additional 4 annual surveys of the participants; (2) Construct individual growth curves to describe their use of tobacco, alcohol, marijuana, and other drugs; (3) Identify the predictors of the growth curve parameters, including cultural factors, peer factors, substance use during high school, psychological factors, and demographic factors; (4) Evaluate emerging adulthood variables as potential mediators of these influences, including identity exploration, experimentation / possibilities, instability (residential mobility, role transitions), self-focus, and subjective experience of being in-between adolescence and adulthood; and (5) Make recommendations for the development of improved health education messages to prevent drug use among acculturating Hispanics during the transition to emerging adulthood. This application addresses the public health goals of preventing and reducing substance use among young adults. It also aims to reduce health disparities by identifying risk and protective factors that are specific to Hispanics
Keywords: Acculturation; Address; Adolescence; Adolescent; Adult; Affect; Alcohol or Other Drugs use; Alcohols; Area; Assimilations; behavioral/social science; career; Child; cohesion; cohort; Communication; Conflict (Psychology); cultural values; Data; Demographic Factors; Dependency (Psychology); Deterioration; Development; Discrimination (Psychology); Drug abuse; Drug usage; Educational aspects; emerging adult; emerging adulthood; Emotional; Employment; Epidemiology; ethnic discrimination; experience; Extended Family; Family; Family member; family structure; Feeling; Friends; Friendships; Gender; Generations; Goals; Growth; Health; health disparity; Health education; high risk; high school; Hispanic Americans; Hispanics; Home environment; Immigrant; improved; Individual; Intervention; Lead; Learning; Life; Longitudinal Studies; Los Angeles; Mainstreaming (Education); Marihuana; Marriage; Mediating; Mediator of activation protein; Mexican Americans; Occupational; Parent-Child Relations; parental monitoring; Parents; Participant; Pathway interactions; Pattern; peer; Pharmaceutical Preparations; Population; prevent; Problem behavior; Psychological Factors; Psychosocial Factor; public health medicine (field); Recommendation; Research; Research Personnel; Residential Mobility; Resources; Risk; Risk Behaviors; Risk Factors; Role; role model; Schools; Sex Characteristics; social; social science research; Societies; Socioeconomic Status; Staging; Stress; Students; Surveys; Tobacco use; Training; young adult
Relevance: This application addresses the public health goals of preventing and reducing substance use among young adults. It also aims to reduce health disparities by identifying risk and protective factors that are specific to Hispanics
Project start date: 2003-04-01
Project end date: 2015-01-31
Budget start date: 1-FEB-2012
Budget end date: 31-JAN-2013
5R01DA016310-09 (2012): $614705
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DRUG USE AMONG HISPANIC EMERGING ADULTS
Albertina Lourdes, Professor
University Of Southern Californiacity: Los Angeles country: United States (us)
Grant 5R01DA016310-08 from National Institute On Drug Abuse
Keywords: 0-11 years old; 12-20 years old; 21+ years old; abuse of drugs; abuses drugs; Acculturation; Acculturations; Address; Adolescence; adolescence (12-20); Adolescent; Adolescent Youth; Adult; adult human (21+); adult youth; Affect; Alcohol or Other Drugs use; Alcohols; AOD use; Area; Assimilation; Assimilations; at risk behavior; behavioral problem; behavioral/social science; career; Chemical Class, Alcohol; Chicanas; Chicanos; Child; Child Youth; children; Children (0-21); Cognitive Discrimination; cohesion; cohort; Communication; Conflict; Conflict (Psychology); Cultural Assimilation; cultural values; Data; Demographic Factors; Dependency; Dependency (Psychology); Deterioration; Development; Discrimination; Discrimination (Psychology); Drug abuse; Drug usage; drug use; drug/agent; Drugs; Education; Educational aspects; Educational Mainstreaming; emerging adult; emerging adulthood; Emotional; emotional dependency; Employment; Epidemiology; ethnic discrimination; experience; Extended Family; Family; Family member; family structure; Feeling; feelings; Friends; Friendships; Gender; gender difference; Generalized Growth; Generations; Goals; Growth; Health; health disparities; health disparity; Health education; Health Instruction; Health Training; Health Tutoring; heavy metal lead; heavy metal Pb; high risk; high school; Hispanic Americans; hispanic community; Hispanic Populations; Hispanics; Hispanics or Latinos; Home; Home environment; Human, Adult; Human, Child; Immigrant; improved; Individual; Intervention; Intervention Strategies; interventional strategy; Investigators; juvenile; juvenile human; Latino Population; Lead; Learning; Life; long-term study; Longitudinal Studies; Los Angeles; Mainstream Education, achievement; Mainstreaming; Mainstreaming (Education); Marihuana; Marriage; Mediating; Mediator; Mediator of Activation; Mediator of activation protein; Medication; Mexican Americans; Occupational; ontogeny; parent child interaction; parent monitoring; parent offspring interaction; Parent-Child Relations; Parent-Child Relationship; parental monitoring; Parents; Participant; pathway; Pathway interactions; Pattern; Pb element; peer; Pharmaceutic Preparations; Pharmaceutical Preparations; Population; prevent; preventing; Problem behavior; Psychological Factors; Psychosocial Factor; psychosocial variables; Public Health; public health medicine (field); Recommendation; Research; Research Personnel; Research Resources; Researchers; Residential Mobility; Resources; Risk; Risk Behaviors; Risk Factors; Risky Behavior; Role; role model; Schools; Sex Characteristics; Sex Differences; sexual dimorphism (noncellular); social; social role; social science research; Societies; Socio-economic status; Socioeconomic Status; Spanish Americans; Spanish Origin; Staging; Status, Socioeconomic; Stress; Students; substance use; Survey Instrument; Surveys; teenage; Tissue Growth; Tobacco Consumption; Tobacco use; Training; young adult; youngster
Relevance: This application addresses the public health goals of preventing and reducing substance use among young adults. It also aims to reduce health disparities by identifying risk and protective factors that are specific to Hispanics
Project start date: 2003-04-01
Project end date: 2015-01-31
Budget start date: 1-FEB-2011
Budget end date: 31-JAN-2012
PFA/PA: PA-07-070
5R01DA016310-08 (2011): $627732
Grants awarded to Albertina Lourdes
DRUG USE AMONG HISPANIC EMERGING ADULTS
Albertina Lourdes, Professor
University Of Southern Californiacity: Los Angeles country: United States (us)
Grant 7R01DA016310-07 from National Institute On Drug Abuse
Relevance: This application addresses the public health goals of preventing and reducing substance use among young adults. It also aims to reduce health disparities by identifying risk and protective factors that are specific to Hispanics
Project start date: 2003-04-01
Project end date: 2015-01-31
Budget start date: 1-MAY-2010
Budget end date: 31-JAN-2011
PFA/PA: PA-07-070
7R01DA016310-07 (2010): $651517