title: The role of school engagement in preventing adolescent delinquency and substance use: a survival analysis.
abstract: The present study was designed to examine the effects of school engagement on risky behavior in adolescence. Using data from the 4-H Study of Positive Youth Development (PYD), a longitudinal study of U.S. adolescents, discrete-time survival analyses were conducted to assess the effect of behavioral and emotional school engagement on the initiation of drug use and delinquency. The current analyses used seven years of longitudinal data collected from youth and their parents. Results of discrete-time survival analysis indicated that, controlling for demographic variables, higher degrees of behavioral and emotional school engagement predicted a significantly lower risk of substance use and involvement in delinquency. Substance use prevention programs and other health-risk reduction programs should include components (i.e., adolescents' participation in and emotional attachment to school) to capitalize on the protective role of the school context against youth risk behavior.
authors: Education, Human Development, and the Workforce, American Institutes for Research, NW Washington, DC 20007, USA. yli@air.org
authors: Yibing
authors: Y
authors: Li
authors: Wei
authors: W
authors: Zhang
authors: Jianjun
authors: J
authors: Liu
authors: Miriam R
authors: MR
authors: Arbeit
authors: Seth J
authors: SJ
authors: Schwartz
authors: Edmond P
authors: EP
authors: Bowers
authors: Richard M
authors: RM
authors: Lerner
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007604:Juvenile Delinquency / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D012574:Schools; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D016019:Survival Analysis; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology