Increases in Alcohol and Marijuana Use During the Transition Out of High School Into Emerging Adulthood

The Effects of Leaving Home, Going to College, and High School Protective Factors

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ID23328271
AutoresHelene Raskin White (0000-0002-4045-6585, Center of Alcohol Studies, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 607 Allison Road, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854-8001), Barbara J Mcmorris (0000-0001-9605-0931, Center of Alcohol Studies, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 607 Allison Road, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854-8001), Richard F Catalano (Center of Alcohol Studies, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 607 Allison Road, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854-8001), Charles B Fleming (0000-0002-1357-5706, Center of Alcohol Studies, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 607 Allison Road, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854-8001), Kevin P Haggerty (0000-0002-6210-6156, Center of Alcohol Studies, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 607 Allison Road, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854-8001), Robert D Abbott (0000-0001-5183-8215, Center of Alcohol Studies, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 607 Allison Road, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854-8001)
Año2006
Volumen67
Número6
Páginas810-822
Fecha de publicación2006-11-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, Supplement (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1946-584X • E-ISSN: 1946-5858
EditorialAlcohol Research Documentation, Inc. (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.15288/jsa.2006.67.810
PMID17060997
OpenAlexW1993175157
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas82
Referencias citadas12

OBJECTIVE: This study examined the effects of leaving home and going to college on changes in the frequency of alcohol use, heavy episodic drinking, and marijuana use shortly after leaving high school. We also examined how protective factors in late adolescence predict post-high school substance use and moderate the effects of leaving home and going to college. METHOD: Data came from subjects (N = 319; 53% male) interviewed at the end of 12th grade and again approximately 6 months later, as part of the Raising Healthy Children project. RESULTS: Leaving home and going to college were significantly related to increases in the frequency of alcohol use and heavy episodic drinking from high school to emerging adulthood but not to changes in marijuana use. Having fewer friends who used each substance protected against increases in the frequency of alcohol use, heavy episodic drinking, and marijuana use. Higher religiosity protected against increases in alcohol-and marijuana-use frequency. Higher parental monitoring protected against increases in heavy episodic drinking and moderated the effect of going to college on marijuana use. Lower sensation seeking lessened the effect of going to college on increases in alcohol use and heavy episodic drinking. CONCLUSIONS: To prevent increases in substance use in emerging adulthood, interventions should concentrate on strengthening prosocial involvement and parental monitoring during high school. In addition, youths with high sensation seeking might be targeted for added intervention.

Alcohol · Cannabis · Developmental psychology · Environmental health · Heavy drinking · Injury prevention · Intervention (counseling) · Personality · Poison control · Prosocial behavior · Psychiatry · Psychological intervention · Religiosity · Sensation Seeking · Sobriety · Suicide prevention · Young adult · Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development · Clinical Psychology · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology · Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes