Longitudinally Predicting Late Adolescent and Young Adult Drug Use: Childhood and Adolescent Precursors
Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent PsychiatryPublished 1 September 1995Open access
Judith S. Brook, Martin Whiteman, Patricia Cohen, Joseph Shapiro, Elinor B. Balka
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Earlier findings that childhood personality is related to adolescent personality and then to drug use were extended to young adulthood are extended, indicating the stability of personality across development.
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Earlier findings that childhood personality is related to adolescent personality and then to drug use were extended to young adulthood. This mediational model indicates the stability of personality across development. Despite this stability, other results suggest ways to modify drug use.
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