Attitudes are associated with the drug use profiles of middle school adolescents: A latent class analysis

García-Cerde, Rodrigo; Valente, Juliana Y.; Sanchez, Zila M.

doi:10.1016/j.psychres.2020.113592

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“…For example, qualitative scholarship with SGM Latinx participants has shown that health and well-being are influenced by gender, racism, and homonegativity, which intersect in complex ways to form new, unique experiences that cannot easily be separated or treated as distinct (Bowleg, 2013; Schmitz et al, 2020). Examining latent profiles by considering cultural identities, psychosocial stressors, and available resources can help illuminate heterogeneity patterns relative to intersectional influences on the use of drugs (Carney et al, 2023; Garcia-Cerde et al, 2021; Trenz et al, 2013). LPA offers a robust method for detecting a constellation of intersecting characteristics associated with behavioral health outcomes among SGM Latinx populations (Layland et al, 2022).…”

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Drug use and risk correlates among Latinx sexual and gender minority immigrants.

Cerezo,

Estrada,

Renteria

et al. 2024

Journal of Latinx Psychology

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Latinx sexual and gender minority (SGM) immigrants face significant hardship in the United States that may impact drug use severity. Yet, data on drug use among this community is severely limited. The present study employed latent profile analysis to identify subgroups of drug use severity across sociodemographic (age, years in the United States, and income), psychosocial stress (intersectional discrimination, acculturative stress), and social support. Recruitment efforts on closed online community groups and immigrant networks yielded a community sample of 195 Latinx SGM immigrants based in the United States. The latent class analysis supported a three-class solution with the highest severity class characterized by low levels of social support and intersectional discrimination but moderate levels of acculturative stress, whereas the lowest severity class reflected low levels of stressors and high social support. Multivariate analysis of variance tests demonstrated significant differences by gender identity and sexual orientation. Notably, transgender participants reported significantly higher rates of substance use and lower rates of social support than cisgender participants. Recommendations for clinical work and future research are provided.

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Drug use and risk correlates among Latinx sexual and gender minority immigrants.

Cerezo,

Estrada,

Renteria

et al. 2024

Journal of Latinx Psychology

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“…In addition to these meta-analytic findings, a host of psychosocial constructs are candidates for inclusion either as targets of intervention, or psychosocial variables to be assessed in an evaluation. These include motivational and dispositional constructs such as intentions, normative beliefs, attitudes, and beliefs about consequences (Garcia-Cerde et al, 2021; Hohman et al, 2014; Huba et al, 1981; Miech et al, 2017; Olds et al, 2005; Perkins et al, 2019; Stephens et al, 2009; Stoddard & Pierce, 2018; Zaleski & Aloise-Young, 2013). Previous research has also considered personal and social competencies such as assertiveness, skills for refusing peer pressure and substance use offers, decision-making, goal-setting, anger-management, stress-management, and social skills (Barkin et al, 2002; Epstein et al, 2007; Margherio et al, 2020; Scheier et al, 1999; Trudeau et al, 2003).…”

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Psychosocial Indicators of Adolescent Alcohol, Cigarette, and Marijuana Use: An Analysis of Normalized, Harmonized, and Pooled Data

Hansen¹,

Saldana

2022

Eval Health Prof

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We normalized, harmonized, and pooled 344,429 surveys collected from 106,470 research participants from 25 research studies that assessed past 30-day alcohol use, drunkenness, smoking cigarettes, using marijuana, and a host of psychosocial variables. After normalizing and harmonizing psychosocial measures, we completed analyses to examine the ability of psychosocial variables to serve as proxy indicators of use. Intentionality, peer descriptive normative beliefs, and age emerged as being of primary importance in indicating use. Additional variables – peer injunctive norms, beliefs about the positive and negative consequences of use, and attitudes – were also demonstrated to have the potential to serve as proxies in the assessment of substance use risk. There were developmental patterns in how intentionality and descriptive normative beliefs changed with age. Young adolescents had scores that are protective; they have positive intentionality and do not see the prevalence of alcohol and other drug use as widespread. These and other psychosocial variable’s mean scores generally erode with age while the distribution of scores widens as youth grow older. The goal of analyses was to define age-related psychosocial profiles that can be used prospectively to estimate substance use risk. These profiles are useful in creating virtual control cases for evaluating disseminated prevention programs.

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Mediating Factors of a Brazilian School-Based Drug Prevention Program

Valente

Sanchez

2022

Int J Ment Health Addiction

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Attitudes are associated with the drug use profiles of middle school adolescents: A latent class analysis

Cited by 9 publications

References 41 publications

Drug use and risk correlates among Latinx sexual and gender minority immigrants.

Drug use and risk correlates among Latinx sexual and gender minority immigrants.

Psychosocial Indicators of Adolescent Alcohol, Cigarette, and Marijuana Use: An Analysis of Normalized, Harmonized, and Pooled Data

Mediating Factors of a Brazilian School-Based Drug Prevention Program

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