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SUBSTANCE USE‐INDUCED DIMINUTION OF VIOLENCE: A COUNTERVAILING EFFECT IN LONGITUDINAL PERSPECTIVE *
Author(s) -
KAPLAN HOWARD B.,
TOLLE GLEN C.,
YOSHIDA TAKUJI
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
criminology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.467
H-Index - 139
eISSN - 1745-9125
pISSN - 0011-1384
DOI - 10.1111/j.1745-9125.2001.tb00921.x
Subject(s) - construct (python library) , perspective (graphical) , psychology , feeling , substance use , social psychology , structural equation modeling , longitudinal study , association (psychology) , developmental psychology , clinical psychology , medicine , psychotherapist , mathematics , statistics , geometry , pathology , computer science , programming language
Although the literature supports a positive association between substance use and violence, scattered reports suggest a basis for predicting an inverse relationship. Using panel data (N = 2, 222) from subjects tested during early adolescence and three years later, we estimate structural equation models that specify within‐wave relationships between substance use and violence constructs, stability of these constructs over time, and lagged effects of each construct on the other. As hypothesized, net of the within‐wave positive relationships, substance use was inversely related to later violence. The findings support theoretical orientations that accommodate motivation to use substances to assuage distressful self‐feelings (including those that instigate violence).