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Academic achievement in substance‐abusing and conduct‐disordered adolescents
Author(s) -
Braggio John T,
Plshkln Vladimir,
Gameros Timothy A.,
Brooks Dale L.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/1097-4679(199303)49:2<282::aid-jclp2270490223>3.0.co;2-n
Subject(s) - psychology , spelling , alcohol abuse , clinical psychology , substance abuse , academic achievement , test (biology) , achievement test , psychiatry , developmental psychology , standardized test , mathematics education , paleontology , philosophy , linguistics , biology
This study determined the influence of adolescent alcohol abuse on academic achievement. Substance Abusing (SA), Conduct Disordered (CD), and Normal Student Control (NSC) adolescents, stratified on Family History (FH) of alcoholism and gender, were tested on the Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT). While SAs and CDs did not differ on the PIAT, both had lower subtest and total test standard scores than NSCs. FH + SAs did not differ from FH + CDs on the Spelling subtest, but both groups had significantly lower scores than FH – NSCs. For SAs and NSCs there were no significant correlations between measures of alcohol intake and PIAT subtest scores.