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Parental Knowledge and Substance Use Among African American Adolescents: Influence of Gender and Grade Level

Auteurs: Jacob Kraemer Tebes, Emily C. Cook, Jeffrey J. Vanderploeg, Richard Feinn, Matthew J. Chinman, Jane K. Shepard, Tamika Brabham, Christian M. Connell

Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Child and Family Studies | Uitgave 4/2011

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Abstract

Parental knowledge is defined as parental awareness and information about a child’s activities, whereabouts, and associations that is obtained through parental monitoring, parental solicitation, or self-disclosure. Increased parental knowledge is generally associated with lower adolescent substance use; however, the influence of various contextual factors, such as adolescent gender and grade level is not well understood, particularly for different racial or ethnic groups. In the present study, we used Hierarchical Generalized Linear Modeling analyses to examine the longitudinal relationship of parental knowledge to adolescent substance use in the context of adolescent gender and grade level among 207 urban African American adolescents in grades 6–11. Results indicated that increased parental knowledge is associated with a concurrent lower likelihood of substance use across all types of substances examined (alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, other drug use, and any drug use), but it did not predict changes in substance use 1 year later for the entire sample. However, analyses by gender and grade level showed that for boys and middle school youth, parental knowledge was a protective factor for increases in substance use across 1 year. Findings are discussed in terms of their implications for prevention and health promotion interventions for adolescent substance use among African American youth.
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Metagegevens
Titel
Parental Knowledge and Substance Use Among African American Adolescents: Influence of Gender and Grade Level
Auteurs
Jacob Kraemer Tebes
Emily C. Cook
Jeffrey J. Vanderploeg
Richard Feinn
Matthew J. Chinman
Jane K. Shepard
Tamika Brabham
Christian M. Connell
Publicatiedatum
01-08-2011
Uitgeverij
Springer US
Gepubliceerd in
Journal of Child and Family Studies / Uitgave 4/2011
Print ISSN: 1062-1024
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-2843
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-010-9406-3