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Psychiatric and Substance Use Disorders in Late Adolescence: The Role of Risk and Perceived Social Support
Author(s) -
Beitchman Joseph H.,
Adlaf Edward M.,
Atkinson Leslie,
Douglas Lori,
Massak Agnes,
Kenaszchuk Chris
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
the american journal on addictions
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.997
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1521-0391
pISSN - 1055-0496
DOI - 10.1080/10550490590924755
Subject(s) - psychopathology , psychology , comorbidity , substance abuse , psychiatry , clinical psychology , discriminant function analysis , longitudinal study , antisocial personality disorder , social support , injury prevention , poison control , medicine , environmental health , pathology , machine learning , computer science , psychotherapist
This article explores how measures of risk and perceived social support relate to different configurations of adolescent psychopathology using data from a community‐based, longitudinal investigation of 284 individuals interviewed in 1982 at age 5 and again at age 19. Discriminant analysis was used to assess differences in risk and social support variables among eight clusters of youth: anxious, anxious drinkers, depressed, depressed drug abusers, antisocial, antisocial drinkers, drug abusers, problem drinkers, and a ninth group representing those participants without a diagnosis. The results indicated that one function, defined by loadings for (low) family support and (high) early cumulative risk, accounted for the majority of between‐group associations. Two groups of drug‐abusing youth with multiple adjustment problems were highest on this function, while nondisordered youth and a group of participants with substance abuse alone were lowest. Findings are discussed in terms of the need to consider comorbidity when examining risk factors for later disorder.