Predicting Substance Use from Childhood Aggression and Prosocial Behaviour
Publication: Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health
8 December 2014
Abstract
This research uses a longitudinal design to examine aggression and prosocial behaviour as early predictors of substance use behaviours in emerging adulthood. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (NLSCY), self- and maternal reports of early engagement in relationally and physically aggressive behaviours and prosocial behaviours are examined as predictors of cigarette smoking, marijuana use, and alcohol use in emerging adulthood. Using multinomial regression analyses we found that maternal reports of relational aggression significantly predicted daily smoking whereas self-reports did not. Maternal reports of relational and physical aggression did not predict alcohol use and marijuana use; however, self-reports of relational aggression and prosocial behaviour predicted weekly marijuana use in this representative Canadian sample.
Résumé
Cette recherche utilise un modèle longitudinal pour examiner l'agression et le comportement prosocial comme prédicteurs précoces des comportements de consommation d'alcool et d'autres drogues chez les jeunes émergents à l’âge adulte. En utilisant les données de l'Enquête longitudinale nationale sur les enfants et les jeunes (ELNE J), l’évaluation de la mère et l'autoévaluation de l'utilisation précoce de comportements agressifs sur les plans relationel et physique et de comportements prosociaux sont examinés comme facteurs prédictifs de l'usage de la cigarette, de la consommation de marijuana et de la consommation d'alcool pour notre échantillon d'adultes émergents. Des analyses de régression multinomiale, nous avons constaté que l’évaluation de la mère de l'agression relationnelle prédit de façon significative le tabagisme quotidien tandis que les autoévaluations ne le prédisent pas. L’évaluation maternelle de l'agression relationnelle et physique ne prédit pas la consommation d'alcool, ni de marijuana. Cependant, les auto-évaluations de l'agression relationnelle et des comportements prosociaux prédisent l'utilisation hebdomadaire de marijuana dans cet échantillon représentatif du Canada.
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Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health
Volume 33 • Number 3 • December 2014
Pages: 1 - 15
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QuigleyDanielle and MaggiStefania. 2014. Predicting Substance Use from Childhood Aggression and Prosocial Behaviour. Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health.
33(3): 1-15. https://doi.org/10.7870/cjcmh-2014-011
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