Early adolescents' substance use and life stress: concurrent and prospective relationships

Life stress during early adolescence has been linked to substance use. Few studies have investigated whether the amount of control the child has over stress moderates this relationship even though the role of personal control is of increasing theoretical importance. Relationships between controllable and uncontrollable life stress and substance use were investigated in 303 urban, African-American fourth and fifth graders (152 males, 151 females). Controllable life stress contributed to six regression equations predicting children's substance use both cross-sectionally and longitudinally, even when selected demographic and personal variables were controlled. Evidence supporting a similar role for uncontrollable life stress was not found.Existen investigaciones que demuestran la relacion eatre el estre. de vida durante la adolescencia y el consumo de sustancias adictivas. Son escasos los estudios que han explorado si la cantidad de control que el nino tiene sobre el estres modera esta relacion, si bien el p...