Preventing Adolescent Substance Use: A Content Analysis of Peer Processes Targeted Within Universal School-Based Programs

Henneberger, Angela K.; Gest, Scott D.; Zadzora, Kathleen M.

doi:10.1007/s10935-019-00544-5

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“…An association between perceived peer use and e-cigarette use presents an opportunity to challenge misconceptions through normative education (e.g. 76% of the sample perceived at least half of their peers to have used an e-cigarette, yet only 26% reported ever trying an e-cigarette), and aligns with research that has found adolescents tend to overestimate their peers' substance use (Henneberger et al, 2019).…”

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Peer-Related Correlates of e-Cigarette Use in Australian Adolescents: a Cross-sectional Examination

Hunter,

Gardner,

O’Dean

et al. 2023

Int J Ment Health Addiction

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Background This study examined cross-sectional associations between e-cigarette use and (i) perceived peer use of e-cigarettes and (ii) bullying (perpetration and/or victimisation) in Australian adolescents. Methods Data were collected in 2022 as part of a cluster randomised controlled trial. Logistic regressions examined associations between e-cigarette use (ever use) and the perceived proportion of friends who use e-cigarettes, bullying victimisation, bullying perpetration and “bully-victim” status (i.e. having perpetrated and been bullied). Results The sample comprised 4204 participants (Mage = 15.70, SD = 0.60). Perceived peer e-cigarette use (OR = 2.59, 95% CI = 2.42, 2.77 p < .001), bullying victimisation (OR = 1.26, 95% CI = 1.08, 1.46, p = .004), bullying perpetration (OR = 3.00, 95% CI = 2.45, 3.66, p < .001) and being a “bully-victim” (OR = 2.58, 95% CI = 2.06, 3.24, p < .001) were associated with increased odds of ever having used an e-cigarette. Conclusions While further longitudinal research is required, results suggest that future prevention efforts for adolescent e-cigarette use could target peer-related factors, such as perceived peer use and bullying.

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confidence: 64%

Peer-Related Correlates of e-Cigarette Use in Australian Adolescents: a Cross-sectional Examination

Hunter,

Gardner,

O’Dean

et al. 2023

Int J Ment Health Addiction

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“…Estimating the effects of peer selection and socialisation has advantages in advancing knowledge of adolescent substance use, with implications for the development of prevention and intervention programmes [16]. In this sense, youth substance use prevention programmes focus more on peer socialisation than on peer selection [40]. In those adolescents who change friends frequently, the possibility that a friend can influence an individual's behaviour is limited [41], so perhaps although a relationship is found between friendship and the consumption network in the present study, its effect is diminished by being in a situation of confinement.…”

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Cannabis Use and Emotional Intelligence in Adolescents during COVID-19 Confinement: A Social Network Analysis Approach

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Confinement by COVID-19 had negative consequences on adolescent mental health, including increased cannabis use. Cannabis is related to variables that influence health and well-being. Emotional Intelligence is associated with adaptive coping styles, peer relationships, and social–emotional competencies. In adolescence, peer selection plays a unique role in the initiation of substance use. However, there are no studies during a confinement stage that analyse the relationships between networks, Emotional Intelligence, and cannabis use. The aim of this paper is to describe and analyse the consumption and friendship networks of an adolescent classroom and their relationship with Emotional Intelligence, cannabis use, and gender during COVID-19 confinement. Participants completed different questionnaires for Emotional Intelligence, cannabis use, and the consumption and friendship network. The sample consisted of 21 students from 10th grade, of which 47.6% were consumers. The friendship network correlates with the consumption network, and significant associations between emotional repair and being a cannabis user. The regression model points to the friendship network as a significant variable in predicting the classroom use network. This study highlights the role of the Social Network Analysis in predicting consumption networks during a COVID-19 confinement stage and serves as a tool for cannabis use prevention interventions in a specific population.

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“…For example, the theory of deviant peer contagion explains mechanisms, such as positive reinforcement, through which affiliation with peers who engage in problem behaviors contributes to the spread of these behaviors within peer groups and that ineffective parental monitoring exacerbates the risks of affiliation with deviant peers (Dishion et al, 1995;Piehler & Dishion, 2014). Empirical studies support this theoretical framework, as alcohol, cannabis, and other substance use are often initiated during adolescence in the presence of peers (Henneberger et al, 2019). Adolescents' perceptions of their best friend's alcohol use are strongly related to their own alcohol use (Schuler et al, 2019), and adolescents whose peers use cannabis are more likely to use cannabis themselves (Marmet et al, 2021).…”

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Predictors of problematic adult alcohol, cannabis, and other substance use: A longitudinal study of two samples

Lansford

Goulter²,

Godwin³

et al. 2022

Dev Psychopathol

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This study examined whether a key set of adolescent and early adulthood risk factors predicts problematic alcohol, cannabis, and other substance use in established adulthood. Two independent samples from the Child Development Project (CDP; n = 585; 48% girls; 81% White, 17% Black, 2% other race/ethnicity) and Fast Track (FT; n = 463; 45% girls; 52% White, 43% Black, 5% other race/ethnicity) were recruited in childhood and followed through age 34 (CDP) or 32 (FT). Predictors of substance use were assessed in adolescence based on adolescent and parent reports and in early adulthood based on adult self-reports. Adults reported their own problematic substance use in established adulthood. In both samples, more risk factors from adolescence and early adulthood predicted problematic alcohol use in established adulthood (compared to problematic cannabis use and other substance use). Externalizing behaviors and prior substance use in early adulthood were consistent predictors of problematic alcohol and cannabis misuse in established adulthood across samples; other predictors were specific to the sample and type of substance misuse. Prevention efforts might benefit from tailoring to address risk factors for specific substances, but prioritizing prevention of externalizing behaviors holds promise for preventing both alcohol and cannabis misuse in established adulthood.

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Preventing Adolescent Substance Use: A Content Analysis of Peer Processes Targeted Within Universal School-Based Programs

Cited by 10 publications

References 51 publications

Peer-Related Correlates of e-Cigarette Use in Australian Adolescents: a Cross-sectional Examination

Peer-Related Correlates of e-Cigarette Use in Australian Adolescents: a Cross-sectional Examination

Cannabis Use and Emotional Intelligence in Adolescents during COVID-19 Confinement: A Social Network Analysis Approach

Predictors of problematic adult alcohol, cannabis, and other substance use: A longitudinal study of two samples

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