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Why do some young adults substantially change their patterns of
smoking, drinking, or illicit drug use after graduating from high
school? In this book, the authors show that leaving high school and
leaving home create new freedoms that are linked to increases in
the use of cigarettes, alcohol, marijuana, and cocaine. They also
show that marriage, pregnancy, and parenthood create new
responsibilities that are linked to decreases in drug use.
The research is based on more than 33,000 young people followed
from high school through young adulthood by the nationwide
Monitoring the Future project. Every two years, participants
reported on their drug use, as well as their schooling, employment,
military service, living arrangements, marriages, pregnancies,
parenthood, and even their divorces.
The unique qualities of this research--large nationally
representative samples, follow-ups extending up to 14 years beyond
high school, and multiple approaches to analysis and data
presentation--allowed the examination of several important
influences simultaneously, while retaining much of the rich detail
encountered in the real world. On the whole, the results are
encouraging, suggesting that the potentials for change and
improvement during the transition to adulthood are as important as
the detrimental effects of problem behavior in adolescence. This
research is a "must" read for anyone concerned with how new
freedoms and responsibilities impact adolescents, young adults, and
the use of licit and illicit drugs.
Does success in school protect teenagers from drug use? Does drug
use impair scholastic success? This book tackles a key issue in
adolescent development and health--the education-drug use
connection. The authors examine the links and likely causal
connections between educational experiences, delinquent behavior,
and adolescent use of tobacco, alcohol, marijuana, and cocaine.
The book uses data from the University of Michigan's "Monitoring
the Future" project. It focuses on a large and nationally
representative sample of 8th grade students in the United States
who were initially surveyed in 1991-1993 and then followed over the
vitally important developmental period between ages 14 and 22. The
volume uses a variety of statistical analysis techniques, and the
findings can be understood by individuals with limited, as well as
with extensive, backgrounds in research design. The findings
convincingly demonstrate that if young people can be successful in
school, it can improve a broad range of outcomes in their lives,
not the least of which is their ability to resist pressures to use
drugs. The book provides: a summary of the findings and
conclusions; a review of relevant literature; a detailed discussion
of the survey and analysis methods; the academic attainment of
those in the longitudinal panel; the delinquent behaviors of panel
members as they relate to measures of educational success; and the
patterns of initiation, continuation, and cessation for each
substance: cigarettes, marijuana, cocaine, and alcohol.
This book is intended for anyone who deals with education and/or
substance use, including educational, developmental, and social
psychologists; sociologists; epidemiologists;educators; and policy
makers. The analysis of panel survey data, using a variety of
techniques, will also appeal to survey methodologists and students.
Does success in school protect teenagers from drug use? Does drug
use impair scholastic success? This book tackles a key issue in
adolescent development and health--the education-drug use
connection. The authors examine the links and likely causal
connections between educational experiences, delinquent behavior,
and adolescent use of tobacco, alcohol, marijuana, and cocaine.
The book uses data from the University of Michigan's "Monitoring
the Future" project. It focuses on a large and nationally
representative sample of 8th grade students in the United States
who were initially surveyed in 1991-1993 and then followed over the
vitally important developmental period between ages 14 and 22. The
volume uses a variety of statistical analysis techniques, and the
findings can be understood by individuals with limited, as well as
with extensive, backgrounds in research design. The findings
convincingly demonstrate that if young people can be successful in
school, it can improve a broad range of outcomes in their lives,
not the least of which is their ability to resist pressures to use
drugs. The book provides: a summary of the findings and
conclusions; a review of relevant literature; a detailed discussion
of the survey and analysis methods; the academic attainment of
those in the longitudinal panel; the delinquent behaviors of panel
members as they relate to measures of educational success; and the
patterns of initiation, continuation, and cessation for each
substance: cigarettes, marijuana, cocaine, and alcohol.
This book is intended for anyone who deals with education and/or
substance use, including educational, developmental, and social
psychologists; sociologists; epidemiologists;educators; and policy
makers. The analysis of panel survey data, using a variety of
techniques, will also appeal to survey methodologists and students.
Why do some young adults substantially change their patterns of
smoking, drinking, or illicit drug use after graduating from high
school? In this book, the authors show that leaving high school and
leaving home create new freedoms that are linked to increases in
the use of cigarettes, alcohol, marijuana, and cocaine. They also
show that marriage, pregnancy, and parenthood create new
responsibilities that are linked to decreases in drug use.
The research is based on more than 33,000 young people followed
from high school through young adulthood by the nationwide
Monitoring the Future project. Every two years, participants
reported on their drug use, as well as their schooling, employment,
military service, living arrangements, marriages, pregnancies,
parenthood, and even their divorces.
The unique qualities of this research--large nationally
representative samples, follow-ups extending up to 14 years beyond
high school, and multiple approaches to analysis and data
presentation--allowed the examination of several important
influences simultaneously, while retaining much of the rich detail
encountered in the real world. On the whole, the results are
encouraging, suggesting that the potentials for change and
improvement during the transition to adulthood are as important as
the detrimental effects of problem behavior in adolescence. This
research is a "must" read for anyone concerned with how new
freedoms and responsibilities impact adolescents, young adults, and
the use of licit and illicit drugs.
This book is intended as a thoughtful extension to Bachman et al.'s
well-received monograph Smoking, Drinking, and Drug Use in Young
Adulthood. That volume showed that the new freedoms of young
adulthood lead to increases in substance use, while the
responsibilities of adulthood--marriage, pregnancy,
parenthood--contribute to declines in substance use. The Decline of
Substance Use in Young Adulthood examines how the changes in social
and religious experiences and in attitudes toward substance use
observed among young adults are related to changes in substance
use, family transitions, living arrangements, college experience,
and employment. The research uses a variety of analysis techniques
and is based on the nationwide Monitoring the Future surveys of
more than 38,000 young people followed from high school into
adulthood. The research covers the last quarter of the 20th
century, a period when drug use and views about drugs underwent
many important changes. In spite of these shifts, the overall
patterns of relationships reported in this book are impressive in
their consistency across time and in their general similarity for
men and women. Specific questions addressed include the following:
*As young adults experience new freedoms and responsibilities, do
their attitudes about drugs change? *Do their religious views and
behaviors shift? *Do their new freedoms and responsibilities affect
the amount of time they spend in social activities, including going
to parties and bars? *And how are any of these changes linked to
changes in cigarette use, alcohol use, marijuana use, and cocaine
use?
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