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Early Teenage Substance Use as a Predictor of Educational‐Vocational Failure
Author(s) -
Friedman Alfred S.,
Bransfield Shirley,
Kreisher Cheryl
Publication year - 1994
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 - 10.1111/j.1521-0391.1994.tb00249.x
Subject(s) - vocational education , substance use , psychology , clinical psychology , pedagogy
The authors report on the relationship of early adolescent substance use (up to the time of the 16th birthday) to educational‐vocational performance in the early adulthood of 612 African‐American urban subjects. Voluminous prospective data were available on the behavior, test performance, and families of 612 urban African‐American subjects, from birth up to 7 years of age. Scarcer prospective data were available for school performance during later years of school. Control variables were derived from these data to determine the amount of variance in each dependent educational‐vocational outcome variable that was accounted for, independently of the amount of variance accounted for by early substance use . (American Journal on Addictions 1994; 3:325–336)