title: Coping capacity in female adolescent substance abusers.
abstract: Female adolescents who qualified for a DSM-III-R diagnosis of Psychoactive Substance Use Disorder were not distinguishable from depressed and conduct disorder subjects on measures of coping but were differentiable from normal controls. Age of onset of substance use, interval between age of first use and age of diagnosis of abuse, and severity of substance use involvement did not correlate with coping capacity. These findings indicate that deficient coping is not specifically related to drug abuse but rather, where present, is concomitant to comorbid psychopathology among females who have a substance abuse disorder.
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation; D002648:Child; D002653:Child Behavior Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D015897:Comorbidity; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D010552:Personality Assessment; D011619:Psychotropic Drugs; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000523:psychology* / Q000534:rehabilitation
chemical_list: D011619:Psychotropic Drugs