Asset Details
Do you wish to reserve the book?
Sex, drugs, and early emerging risk: Examining the association between sexual debut and substance use across adolescence
Hey, we have placed the reservation for you!
By the way, why not check out events that you can attend while you pick your title.
Oops! Something went wrong.
Looks like we were not able to place the reservation. Kindly try again later.
Are you sure you want to remove the book from the shelf?
Sex, drugs, and early emerging risk: Examining the association between sexual debut and substance use across adolescence
Do you wish to request the book?
Sex, drugs, and early emerging risk: Examining the association between sexual debut and substance use across adolescence
Please be aware that the book you have requested cannot be checked out. If you would like to checkout this book, you can reserve another copy
We have requested the book for you!
Your request is successful and it will be processed during the Library working hours. Please check the status of your request in My Requests.
Oops! Something went wrong.
Looks like we were not able to place your request. Kindly try again later.
Journal Article
Sex, drugs, and early emerging risk: Examining the association between sexual debut and substance use across adolescence
2020
Overview
Sexual debut, or first intercourse, predicts problem behaviors such as substance use. This association could reflect a direct effect of debut itself, general developmental trends, or the fact that some youth are more predisposed to a wide array of problem behaviors (e.g., risky sex, substance use). Understanding the association between sexual debut and substance use thus requires methods that can distinguish between these various accounts. In this study the association between sexual debut and substance use was investigated in a longitudinal sample of Mexican-origin youth (N = 674) assessed annually from 5th (Mage = 10.86 years, SD = 0.51) through 12th grade (Mage = 17.69 years, SD = 0.48). The longitudinal aspect of the data allowed the direct effect of sexual debut on substance use to be tested while accounting for long-term trends in substance use, and stable individual differences in those trends based on early risk and debut timing. Substance use increased over time, and early risk and debut were consistently associated with more substance use. Sexual debut also modestly predicted an increase in substance use after accounting for these effects, however. Taken together, results provide some evidence consistent with each of the potential explanations for the association between sexual debut and substance use across adolescence.
Publisher
Public Library of Science,Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Subject
/ Adolescent Behavior - ethnology
/ Age
/ Behavior
/ Child
/ Coitus
/ Drug use
/ Female
/ Humans
/ Male
/ Medicine and Health Sciences
/ Mexican Americans - statistics & numerical data
/ Peers
/ Problem Behavior - psychology
/ Risk
/ Sex
/ Sexual Behavior - statistics & numerical data
/ Substance-Related Disorders - epidemiology
/ Substance-Related Disorders - ethnology
/ Time
/ Trends
/ Youth
