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Historical Change in the Link between Adolescent Deviance Proneness and Marijuana Use, 1979–2004

Authors: Michelle Little, Scott R. Weaver, Kevin M. King, Freda Liu, Laurie Chassin

Published in: Prevention Science | Issue 1/2008

Abstract

We examined historical change in the association between adolescent deviance proneness and marijuana use using 26 years (from 1979 through 2004) of national 12th grade data from the Monitoring the Future (MTF) study. “Deviance proneness” was measured using a latent factor model of behavioral and personality characteristics that underlie both substance use and antisocial disorders. Marijuana use was measured both in terms of annual frequency of use and degree of involvement with marijuana. Separate within-gender structural equation models were used to determine whether links between deviance proneness and marijuana use were consistently significant and invariant in magnitude across 13 two-year historical cohorts. Overall results affirmed the established association between adolescent deviance proneness and both the frequency of marijuana use as well as regular use. Among male youth, the size of the association between deviance proneness and marijuana use was significantly smaller at the cohort of lowest population prevalence (1991/92) compared to cohorts marking peaks in marijuana use prevalence, thus suggesting a “softening” historical trend. By contrast, the prediction of female marijuana use from deviance proneness was not consistently related to historical shifts in population prevalence of marijuana use. Study findings point to the utility of risk-focused prevention programming that targets early precursors of both antisocial and substance use disorders.

Confirmatory factor analyses of the deviance proneness factor (separately by gender) revealed that this factor structure could not be adequately modeled for African Americans given the relatively low numbers of African American participants for each within-gender cohort (average N = 173 at each cohort of male and female African Americans). In addition, results of analyses using African American participants were viewed with caution because of an under-sampling of African Americans relative to the national representation of African Americans in US schools http://www.monitoringthefuture.org.

Logistic coefficients for 2001/02 and 2003/2004 of male results as well as coefficients for 1995/96, 1997/98 and 2003/04 of female results were not significant, but large. This inconsistency may have been related to near “perfect separation” on outcome groups, which occurs when outcome groups are almost perfectly predicted by a set of predictors and results in the inflation of standard error values. This is more likely to happen when certain outcome categories have low frequencies.

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Title: Historical Change in the Link between Adolescent Deviance Proneness and Marijuana Use, 1979–2004
Authors: Michelle Little
Scott R. Weaver
Kevin M. King
Freda Liu
Laurie Chassin
Publication date: 01-03-2008
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Prevention Science / Issue 1/2008
Print ISSN: 1389-4986
Electronic ISSN: 1573-6695
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11121-008-0084-y

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