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Gender Differences in Early Life Risk Factors for Substance Use/Abuse: A Study of an African-American Sample

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Author	Friedman, Alfred S. Granick, Samuel Bransfield, Shirley Kreisher, Cheryl Khalsa, Jag
Copyright Year	1995
Description	Gender differences in risk and protective factors for substance use/abuse in early adulthood were studied. Comprehensive systematic data on African-American males (N = 318) and females (N = 322), from birth to 7 years of age, were available from the National Collaborative Perinatal Study. These subjects were retrieved for assessment at average age 24. There are more differences between males and females than there are similarities in regard to the early childhood variables that predict substance use in early adulthood. However, high activity and intensity of response during infancy (measured at 8 months of age) was found to predict later substance use for both males and females. This type of behavior is considered by us to be a trait of temperament and to suggest the possibility of a genetic predisposition. More risk factors were found for female than for males. The risk factors for females were primarily of two types: 1) Related to experiences with mother and with the family environment; and 2) Poor levels of intellectual functioning and academic performance, and abnormal mental status.
Related Links	http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.3109/00952999509002713
Ending Page	531
Page Count	21
Starting Page	511
ISSN	00952990
e-ISSN	10979891
DOI	10.3109/00952999509002713
Journal	The American journal of drug and alcohol abuse
Issue Number	4
Volume Number	21
Language	English
Publisher	Informa UK Limited
Publisher Date	1995-01-01
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Womens Studies Behavior Females Substance Gender Differences Adulthood Functioning African Use/abuse
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Clinical Psychology Psychiatry and Mental Health

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