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Title: Paternal Death, Parental Divorce, and Timing of First Substance Use in an Ethnically Diverse Sample
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Doran, Kelly A. Watkins, Nicole K. Duckworth, Jennifer C. Waldron, Mary |
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Paternal Death, Parental Divorce, and Timing of First Substance Use in an Ethnically Diverse Sample Journal of Child and Adolescent Substance Abuse 28,2 (2019): 83-91. Also: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1067828X.2019.1580234 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult Publisher: Taylor & Francis Keyword(s): Alcohol Use; Childhood Adversity/Trauma; Cigarette Use (see Smoking); Drug Use; Parental Marital Status; Trauma/Death in family We examined timing of first alcohol, cigarette, and marijuana use as a function of paternal death or parental divorce during childhood. Data were drawn from a large ethnically diverse sample, including 4,880 Hispanic, Black, and White children and mothers. Survival analyses were conducted, predicting age at first substance use from parental loss, separately by substance class and child sex and racial/ethnic group. Results confirm risk of early use associated with parental divorce, especially among females, and highlight paternal death as a risk factor for some children. To inform prevention efforts, replication and extension of analyses to identify underlying mechanisms is necessary. |
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Doran, Kelly A., Nicole K. Watkins, Jennifer C. Duckworth and Mary Waldron. "Paternal Death, Parental Divorce, and Timing of First Substance Use in an Ethnically Diverse Sample." Journal of Child and Adolescent Substance Abuse 28,2 (2019): 83-91.
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