Developmental Pathways to Adolescent Cannabis Abuse and Dependence: Child Maltreatment, Emerging Personality, and Internalizing Versus Externalizing Psychopathology

Child maltreatment is strongly associated with adolescent psychopathology and substance abuse and dependence. However, developmental processes unfolding from childhood into adolescence that delineate this trajectory are not well understood. The current study used path analysis in a structural equati...

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Published in:Psychology of addictive behaviors 2011-12, Vol.25 (4), p.634-644
Main Authors: Oshri, Assaf, Rogosch, Fred A., Burnette, Mandi L., Cicchetti, Dante
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adaptation, Psychological
Adolescent
Adolescent Behavior - psychology
Adolescent Development
Adolescent Psychopathology
Adolescents
Adult
Biological and medical sciences
Cannabis
Child
Child Abuse
Child Abuse - psychology
Child Development
Child maltreatment
Drug Abuse
Drug dependency
Ecological Factors
Emotions
Female
Human
Humans
Internal-External Control
Longitudinal Studies
Male
Marijuana Abuse - epidemiology
Marijuana Abuse - etiology
Marijuana Abuse - psychology
Medical sciences
Models, Psychological
Models, Statistical
Personality
Personality Assessment - statistics & numerical data
Personality Development
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Resilience, Psychological
Risk Factors
Risk-Taking
Substance abuse
Symptoms
Victimology
Young Adult
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Summary:Child maltreatment is strongly associated with adolescent psychopathology and substance abuse and dependence. However, developmental processes unfolding from childhood into adolescence that delineate this trajectory are not well understood. The current study used path analysis in a structural equation modeling framework to examine multiple mediator models, including ego control, ego resiliency, and internalizing and externalizing symptoms to investigate this developmental process. Participants were 415 children, assessed across 3 waves of data, (i.e., at ages 7 to 9, 10 to 12, and 13 to 15). The sample included maltreated (n = 259) and nonmaltreated (n = 156) children; groups were comparable in sociodemographic characteristics. Findings support an transactional-ecological model by revealing a developmental sequence in which severity of early childhood maltreatment potentiates less adaptive childhood personality functioning, followed by externalizing problems in preadolescence, and ultimately adolescent cannabis abuse and dependence symptoms. A developmental pathway from child maltreatment to adolescent cannabis abuse and dependence symptoms via personality and preadolescent internalizing problems was not supported. Understanding developmental pathways by which maltreatment experiences increase risk for substance abuse and dependence symptoms in youth has far-reaching implications for the treatment and prevention of substance use disorders.
ISSN:0893-164X
1939-1501
1939-1501
DOI:10.1037/a0023151