The proposed studies will examine the impact of parental support on adolescents' negative affect-motivated substance use during the transition to high school. Specifically, this research aims to examine 1) the nature and quality of a particular and relevant aspect of parental support (i.e., parental reactions to adolescents' distress) during adolescents' transition to high school, and 2) the impact of parental reactions to adolescents' distress on adolescents' use of substances to cope with their experience of stress and negative affect during the high school transition. Taken together, these studies will address limitations of the literature on family process and adolescent substance use in that the proposed studies focus on parent-adolescent interactional processes particularly relevant to adolescents' use of substances to cope. Advanced methodological (i.e., Experience Sampling Method, parent-adolescent observational data collection) and statistical analytic techniques (i.e., HLM) will facilitate a more sophisticated examination of the proposed aims.

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
Type
Predoctoral Individual National Research Service Award (F31)
Project #
5F31DA017434-03
Application #
6945394
Study Section
Human Development Research Subcommittee (NIDA)
Program Officer
Etz, Kathleen
Project Start
2003-09-30
Project End
2006-09-29
Budget Start
2005-09-30
Budget End
2006-09-29
Support Year
3
Fiscal Year
2005
Total Cost
$28,126
Indirect Cost
Name
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Department
Psychology
Type
Schools of Arts and Sciences
DUNS #
608195277
City
Chapel Hill
State
NC
Country
United States
Zip Code
27599