An adolescent's school context includes some of the most salient risk and protective factors for health-compromising behaviors. Research suggests that students who are disengaged from school are more likely to use alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs; however, a paucity of work has been done to describe the relationship between school disengagement and substance use in a multivariate, longitudinal, and comprehensive model. The proposed research constitutes a request for a NIDA Mentored Research Scientist Development Award to provide training and research experience that will allow the PI to thoroughly examine the patterns and processes of school disengagement in an effort to formulate a conceptual model that describes the risk, protective, and resiliency factors of the school context. As part of the proposed research plan, the patterns of school disengagement from elementary school to high school will be examined using a growth mixture model, a strategy that identifies distinct groups of individuals possessing a similar trajectory of change over time. The relevance of these trajectories will be evaluated by assessing the antecedents (e.g. gender, ethnicity), consequences (e.g. likelihood of substance abuse), and time varying covariates (e.g. involvement with delinquent peers, parental monitoring) of membership in each distinct trajectory class. The proposed research will allow the PI to apply state-of-the-art statistical techniques to examine the relationship between school disengagement and substance use in two, large longitudinal datasets. In addition, the temporal ordering and reciprocal effects between drug use and the development of school problems within the context of other important factors related to the family and peers will be examined. The candidates goal is to canvass a new substantive research area, develop a comprehensive model that describes the mechanisms by which school disengagement over time affects substance use, be an apprentice to three superb scholars in the field of adolescent risk behavior and advanced longitudinal methodology, and prepare to operate as an independent researcher.

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
Type
Research Scientist Development Award - Research & Training (K01)
Project #
5K01DA017810-04
Application #
7208048
Study Section
Human Development Research Subcommittee (NIDA)
Program Officer
Etz, Kathleen
Project Start
2005-03-10
Project End
2009-02-28
Budget Start
2007-03-01
Budget End
2008-02-29
Support Year
4
Fiscal Year
2007
Total Cost
$91,447
Indirect Cost
Name
Colorado State University-Fort Collins
Department
Psychology
Type
Schools of Arts and Sciences
DUNS #
785979618
City
Fort Collins
State
CO
Country
United States
Zip Code
80523
Augustyn, Megan Bears; Fulco, Celia J; Henry, Kimberly L (2018) Intergenerational Continuity in Depression: The Importance of Time-Varying Effects, Maternal Co-morbid Health Risk Behaviors and Child's Gender. J Youth Adolesc 47:2143-2168
Henry, Kimberly L; Knight, Kelly E; Thornberry, Terence P (2012) School disengagement as a predictor of dropout, delinquency, and problem substance use during adolescence and early adulthood. J Youth Adolesc 41:156-66
Henry, Kimberly L; McDonald, James N; Oetting, Eugene R et al. (2011) Age of onset of first alcohol intoxication and subsequent alcohol use among urban American Indian adolescents. Psychol Addict Behav 25:48-56
Henry, Kimberly L; Cavanagh, Thomas M; Oetting, Eugene R (2011) Perceived parental investment in school as a mediator of the relationship between socio-economic indicators and educational outcomes in rural America. J Youth Adolesc 40:1164-77
Henry, Kimberly L; Muthén, Bengt (2010) Multilevel Latent Class Analysis: An Application of Adolescent Smoking Typologies with Individual and Contextual Predictors. Struct Equ Modeling 17:193-215
Henry, Kimberly L; Thornberry, Terence P (2010) Truancy and escalation of substance use during adolescence. J Stud Alcohol Drugs 71:115-24
Thornberry, Terence P; Henry, Kimberly L; Ireland, Timothy O et al. (2010) The causal impact of childhood-limited maltreatment and adolescent maltreatment on early adult adjustment. J Adolesc Health 46:359-65
Henry, Kimberly L; Stanley, Linda R; Edwards, Ruth W et al. (2009) Individual and contextual effects of school adjustment on adolescent alcohol use. Prev Sci 10:236-47
Henry, Kimberly L; Oetting, Eugene R; Slater, Michael D (2009) The Role of Attachment to Family, School, and Peers in Adolescents' Use of Alcohol: A Longitudinal Study of Within-Person and Between-Persons Effects. J Couns Psychol 56:564-572
Henry, Kimberly L; Thornberry, Terence P; Huizinga, David H (2009) A discrete-time survival analysis of the relationship between truancy and the onset of marijuana use. J Stud Alcohol Drugs 70:5-15

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