@article{ref1,
title="Childhood predictors of adolescent marijuana use: early sensation-seeking, deviant peer affiliation, and social images",
journal="Addictive behaviors",
year="2008",
author="Hampson, Sarah E. and Andrews, J. A. and Barckley, Maureen",
volume="33",
number="9",
pages="1140-1147",
abstract="This study examined psychosocial mechanisms by which children's early sensation-seeking may influence their later marijuana use. In a longitudinal study, 4th and 5th grade elementary school children (N=420) were followed until they were in 11th and 12th grades in high school with annual or biennial assessments. Sensation-seeking (assessed over the first 4 assessments) predicted affiliating with deviant peers and level of favorable social images of kids who use marijuana (both assessed over the subsequent 3 assessments). Affiliation with deviant peers and the growth in social images predicted marijuana use in 11th and 12th grades. Affiliation with deviant peers mediated the effect of early sensation-seeking on subsequent marijuana use. The theoretical and applied significance of this influence of early sensation-seeking is discussed.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0306-4603",
doi="10.1016/j.addbeh.2008.04.010",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.addbeh.2008.04.010"
}