Adolescent ecstasy and other drug use in the National Survey of Parents and Youth: the role of sensation-seeking, parental monitoring and peer's drug use.
The association between high sensation-seeking, close friends' drug use and low parental monitoring with ecstasy (MDMA) use in adolescence was examined in a sample of US household-dwelling adolescents aged 12-18 years (N=5049). We also tested whether associations were of stronger magnitude than associations between these correlates and marijuana or alcohol/tobacco use in adolescence. Data from Round 2 of the National Survey of Parents and Youth (NSPY) Restricted Use Files (RUF) was analyzed via Jackknife weighted multinomial logistic regression models. High sensation-seekers were more likely to be ecstasy, marijuana, and alcohol/tobacco users, respectively, as compared to low sensation-seekers. High sensation-seeking and close friends' drug use were more strongly associated with ecstasy as compared to marijuana and alcohol/tobacco use. Low parental monitoring was associated with marijuana use and alcohol/tobacco use and there was a trend for it to be associated with ecstasy use. Ecstasy use is strongly associated with peer drug use and more modestly associated with high sensation-seeking. School prevention programs should target high-sensation-seeking adolescents and also encourage them to affiliate with non-drug using peers.
Martins
Silvia S
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Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205-1900, USA. smartins@jhsph.edu <smartins@jhsph.edu>
Storr
Carla L
CL
Alexandre
Pierre K
PK
Chilcoat
Howard D
HD
D000293:Adolescent; D019969:Amphetamine-Related Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology*; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006213:Hallucinogens; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D002189:Marijuana Abuse / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology; D018817:N-Methyl-3,4-methylenedioxyamphetamine; D009664:Norway / Q000453:epidemiology; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010379:Peer Group; D014029:Tobacco Use Disorder / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology
D006213:Hallucinogens; D018817:N-Methyl-3,4-methylenedioxyamphetamine