… Only one study found that rates of substance use were not significantly higher in suicide …
suicidal behavior and substance use in adolescents. This chapter concludes that substance use …

… protective factors that contribute to adolescent substance use behavior. Given typical patterns
of substance use … period, an emphasis is placed on alcohol, cigarette, and marijuana use. …

… factors in substance use. The evidence shows that there are risk factors for initiating, for
maintaining, for escalating substance … Attitudes to, and the behavior of substance use can be an …

… factors” will be used in this article to refer to factors that decrease the risk of substance misuse
(… Genetic risk may also interact with other behavioral and social risk factors in imparting risk …

… Over the past 20 years we have accumulated a greater knowledge and understanding of
the genetic, neurobiological, and behavioral factors that may be associated with young people …

… variations in the behavioral and cognitive variables specified in the social learning process
accounted for substantial portions of the variations in adolescent substance use and mediate …

… Social competence represents the degree to which individuals are able to behavioral
nonconformity are likely to be more consistent. In a national sample of adomeet salient societal …

… For the current analysis, we examined engagement in substance use behavior within the
last 30 days at Waves 1 (baseline), 3, (18 months), and 4 (36 months). The design of the study …

… problem behavior [9]. Thus it … factor–substance use associations. Of special interest are
three questions: (1) How do risk and protective factors differ in their associations with lifetime use …

… substance use behavior … Factors associated with the substance use behavior scale are
displayed in Table 2. Male gender was a significant predictor of all categories of substance use in …