title: Social Self-Control Is a Statistically Nonredundant Correlate of Adolescent Substance Use.
abstract: The social self-control scale (SSCS), which taps provocative behavior in social situations, was compared with five potentially overlapping measures (i.e., temperament-related impulsivity, psychomotor agitation-related self-control, perceived social competence, and rash action in response to negative and positive affectively charged states) as correlates of tobacco use and other drug use among a sample of 3,356 ninth-grade youth in Southern California high schools. While there was a lot of shared variance among the measures, the SSCS was incrementally associated with both categories of drug use over and above alternate constructs previously implicated in adolescent drug use. Hence, SSC may relate to adolescent drug use through an etiological pathway unique from other risk constructs. Given that youth who tend to alienate others through provocative social behavior are at risk for multiple drug use, prevention programming to modify low SSC may be warranted.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Preventive Medicine , University of Southern California , Los Angeles , California , USA.|b Department of Psychology , University of Southern California , Los Angeles , California , USA.|c School of Social Work , University of Southern California , Los Angeles , California , USA.
authors.forename: Steve
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sussman
authors.affiliation: a Department of Preventive Medicine , University of Southern California , Los Angeles , California , USA.|b Department of Psychology , University of Southern California , Los Angeles , California , USA.|c School of Social Work , University of Southern California , Los Angeles , California , USA.
authors.forename: Chih-Ping
authors.initials: CP
authors.lastname: Chou
authors.affiliation: a Department of Preventive Medicine , University of Southern California , Los Angeles , California , USA.|b Department of Psychology , University of Southern California , Los Angeles , California , USA.
authors.forename: Raina D
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Pang
authors.affiliation: a Department of Preventive Medicine , University of Southern California , Los Angeles , California , USA.|b Department of Psychology , University of Southern California , Los Angeles , California , USA.
authors.forename: Matthew
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kirkpatrick
authors.affiliation: a Department of Preventive Medicine , University of Southern California , Los Angeles , California , USA.|b Department of Psychology , University of Southern California , Los Angeles , California , USA.
authors.forename: Casey R
authors.initials: CR
authors.lastname: Guillot
authors.affiliation: a Department of Preventive Medicine , University of Southern California , Los Angeles , California , USA.|b Department of Psychology , University of Southern California , Los Angeles , California , USA.
authors.forename: Matthew
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Stone
authors.affiliation: a Department of Preventive Medicine , University of Southern California , Los Angeles , California , USA.|b Department of Psychology , University of Southern California , Los Angeles , California , USA.
authors.forename: Rubin
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Khoddam
authors.affiliation: c School of Social Work , University of Southern California , Los Angeles , California , USA.|d Human Development and Family Studies , Colorado State University , Fort Collins , Colorado , USA.
authors.forename: Nathaniel R
authors.initials: NR
authors.lastname: Riggs
authors.affiliation: a Department of Preventive Medicine , University of Southern California , Los Angeles , California , USA.|b Department of Psychology , University of Southern California , Los Angeles , California , USA.
authors.forename: Jennifer B
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Unger
authors.affiliation: a Department of Preventive Medicine , University of Southern California , Los Angeles , California , USA.|b Department of Psychology , University of Southern California , Los Angeles , California , USA.
authors.forename: Adam M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Leventhal
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior; D002140:California; D006801:Humans; D012574:Schools; D000068356:Self-Control; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders; D064424:Tobacco Use
keywords: Social self-control; covariate measures; drug use; tobacco