This study examined the
relationships between youth and parental sensation-seeking, peer influence,
parental monitoring and youth risk involvement in adolescence using structural
equation modeling.
Beginning in grade-six, longitudinal data were collected
from 543 students over three years. Youth sensation-seeking in grade six
contributed to risk involvement in early adolescence (grades six and seven)
indirectly through increased peer risk influence and decreased parental
monitoring but did not have a direct contribution. It contributed directly and
indirectly to risk involvement in middle adolescence (grades eight and nine).
Parent sensation-seeking at baseline was positively associated with peer risk
influence and negatively associated with parental monitoring; it had no direct
effect on adolescent risk involvement. Parental monitoring buffers negative
peer influence on adolescent risk involvement.
Results highlight the need for
intervention efforts to provide normative feedback about adolescent risky
behaviors and to vary among families in which parents and/or youth have high
sensation-seeking propensities.
Proportions of youth involved in risky behaviors at baseline, 12, 24, and 36 months
| Risky behaviors | Baseline | 12 months | 24 months | 36 months | z |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sample size | 543 | 494 | 458 | 451 | |
| Delinquent behaviors | |||||
| Was suspended from school | 1.9% | 2.5% | 11.9% | 16.9% | 9.12c |
| Was truant | 3.2% | 1.9% | 3.8% | 3.6% | 0.82 |
| Carried a weapon | 4.4% | 4.1% | 5.3% | 9.7% | 3.45c |
| Engaged in a fight | 33.2% | 21.8% | 22.5% | 24.6% | 3.20b |
| Substance use behaviors | |||||
| Smoked cigarettes | 2.0% | 1.6% | 2.4% | 1.8% | 0.01 |
| Drank alcohol | 18.5% | 14.7% | 18.6% | 29.3% | 3.60c |
| Used marijuana | 0.4% | 1.0% | 1.1% | 2.7% | 2.97b |
| Sold or carried drugs | 1.1% | 0.6% | 1.3% | 2.2% | 1.58 |
| Been asked to sell drugs | 1.5% | 1.6% | 2.4% | 2.7% | 1.47 |
| Sexual behaviors | |||||
| Ever had sex | 3.6% | 9.6% | 20.8% | 28.6% | 13.90c |
| Had sex in the last 6 months | 1.0% | 3.1% | 7.9% | 13.7% | 9.15c |
| Ever had anal sex | 0.8% | 2.1% | 6.8% | 8.7% | 8.14c |
| Had multiple sex partners | 0.2% | 0.6% | 2.9% | 4.4% | 6.12c |
| Did not use a condom during last sexual encounter | 66.7% | 59.6% | 44.0% | 27.3% | 5.04c |
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By:
1Pediatric Prevention Research Center,
Department of Pediatrics, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit,
Michigan, USA
2Office of HIV/AIDS, the Bahamas Ministry
of Health, Nassau, The Bahamas
Corresponding
author: Bo Wang, Ph.D., Pediatric Prevention Research Center, Wayne State
University School of Medicine, 4707 St. Antoine, Suite W534, Detroit, MI 48201,
Phone: 313-966-2366, Fax: 313-745-4993
Youth Soc. 2016 Mar; 48(2): 220–241.
Published online 2013
May 6. doi: 10.1177/0044118X13487228
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