title: Neighborhood Disadvantage and Adolescent Substance Use Disorder: The Moderating Role of Maltreatment.
abstract: The ecological-transactional model proposes that nested contexts interact to influence development. From this perspective, child maltreatment represents an individual-level risk factor posited to interact with numerous other nested contextual levels, such as the neighborhood environment, to affect development. The aim of this study was to investigate whether adolescents with maltreatment histories represent a vulnerable group for whom disadvantaged neighborhoods confer risk for substance use disorders. Participants were 411 adolescents (age 15-18; mean age = 16.24) from an investigation of the developmental sequelae of childhood maltreatment. Multiple-group structural equation models, controlling for family-level socioeconomic status, indicated that neighborhood disadvantage was associated with more marijuana-dependence symptoms among maltreated but not among non-maltreated adolescents. Moreover, among maltreated adolescents, those who experienced multiple subtypes of maltreatment were at greatest risk for problematic marijuana use in the context of neighborhood disadvantage. Interestingly, the direct effect of neighborhood disadvantage, but not the interaction with maltreatment, was related to adolescent alcohol-dependence symptoms. Results highlight the importance of considering multiple levels of influence when examining risk associated with child maltreatment.
authors.affiliation: Mt. Hope Family Center, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA elizabeth_handley@urmc.rochester.edu.
authors.forename: Elizabeth D
authors.initials: ED
authors.lastname: Handley
authors.affiliation: Mt. Hope Family Center, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA.
authors.forename: Fred A
authors.initials: FA
authors.lastname: Rogosch
authors.affiliation: Mt. Hope Family Center, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA.
authors.forename: Danielle J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Guild
authors.affiliation: Mt. Hope Family Center, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
authors.forename: Dante
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Cicchetti
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D002649:Child Abuse / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D003415:Crime / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010552:Personality Assessment / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011203:Poverty / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012111:Residence Characteristics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012307:Risk Factors; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology
keywords: child maltreatment; neighborhood; substance abuse