The Education-Drug Use Connection: How Successes and Failures in School Relate to Adolescent Smoking, Drinking, Drug Use, and DelinquencyDoes success in school protect teenagers from drug use? Does drug use impair scholastic success? This book tackles a key issue in adolescent development and health - the education-drug use connection. The authors examine the links and likely causal connections between educational experiences, delinquent behavior, and adolescent use of tobacco, alco |
Contents
| 1 | |
Conceptual and Empirical Overview of Issues | 17 |
Chapter 3 Survey Methods and Analysis Strategies | 31 |
Causes and Correlates | 49 |
Chapter 5 Delinquency and Other Problem Behaviors Linked With Educational Success and Failure | 101 |
Chapter 6 How Smoking Is Linked With Educational Success and Failure | 133 |
Chapter 7 How Marijuana Use Is Linked With Educational Success and Failure | 171 |
Chapter 8 How Cocaine Use Is Linked With Educational Success and Failure | 205 |
Chapter 9 How Alcohol Use Is Linked With Educational Success and Failure | 231 |
Chapter 10 Summary Conclusions and Implications | 257 |
Appendix | 281 |
Appendix Tables and Figures | 299 |
| 407 | |
Author Index | 419 |
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30-day alcohol 30-day cigarette 30-day marijuana academic attainment adolescents African-American alcohol use Wave Annual cocaine attainment at age causal chapter cocaine use Wave collection modal age College plans Wave Column cut school Wave daily smoking data collection grade data collection modal Days cut school Delinquency index Wave delinquent behaviors earlier educational success eighth grade end of eighth Figure follow-up GPA Wave grade retention High school dropout Hispanic Hours worked Wave included involvement index Wave Jessor Last 30 Days later marijuana use Wave Mean secondary school measures modal age 14 Multiple Classification Analyses multivariate negative Number of parents office Wave pairwise deletion panel data Parent involvement index parents Wave predictors Preferred hours problem behaviors relationships Religious attendance Wave Religious importance Wave scholastic setback W2 Self-esteem index Wave Serious scholastic setback shows simple random sample Skipped classes Wave Standardized Standardized structural equation model Table urban density Wave 1 data