Trial reportPsychology & health2015
Post-traumatic growth, stressful life events, and relationships with substance use behaviors among alternative high school students: a prospective study.
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 37 citations in OpenAlex.
- Alcohol use, vision therapy, children, mood … what predicts post-traumatic growth after concussion in women?Frontiers in global women's health · 2026Article
- Family History of Substance Use and Stressful Life Events Impact Adolescent Maturation of Cerebral White Matter.Addiction biology · 2025Article
- A study in University of Ruhuna for investigating prevalence, risk factors and remedies for psychiatric illnesses among students.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Does perceived post-traumatic growth predict better psychological adjustment during the COVID-19 pandemic? Results from a national longitudinal survey in the USA.Journal of psychiatric research · 2022Article
- Effect of Repeated Home Quarantine on Anxiety, Depression, and PTSD Symptoms in a Chinese Population During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-sectional Study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- Share of Advertising Voice at the Point-of-Sale and Its Influence on At-Risk Students' Use of Alternative Tobacco Products.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2019Article
- Intrinsic Motivation and Psychological Connectedness to Drug Abuse and Rehabilitation: The Perspective of Self-Determination.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
- Stressful life events influence transitions among latent classes of alcohol use.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2018Article
- Trajectories of cannabis-related associative memory among vulnerable adolescents: Psychometric and longitudinal evaluations.Developmental psychology · 2018Article
- Methylation of OPRL1 mediates the effect of psychosocial stress on binge drinking in adolescents.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2018Article
- Relationships Between Stress, Negative Emotions, Resilience, and Smoking: Testing a Moderated Mediation Model.Substance use & misuse · 2016Article
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Abstract
A highly stressful life event (SLE) can elicit positive psychosocial growth, referred to as post-traumatic growth (PTG) among youth. We examined PTG and the number of SLEs for their influence on substance use behaviours among a sample of older, diverse alternative high school students participating in a drug prevention programme (n=564; mean age=16.8; 49% female; 65% Hispanic). Surveys assessed PTG, SLEs and substance use behaviours at the two-year follow-up. Multilevel regression models were run to examine the effect of PTG and the number of SLEs on frequency of substance use at the two-year follow-up, controlling for baseline substance use, sociodemographic variables, peer substance use, attrition propensity and treatment group. Greater PTG scores were associated with lower frequencies of alcohol use, getting drunk on alcohol, binge drinking, marijuana use and less substance abuse at the two-year follow-up, but not associated with cigarette or hard drug use. Also, PTG did not moderate the relationship between cumulative number of SLEs and substance use behaviours, rather PTG appears to be protective against negative effects of a single, life-altering SLE. Fostering PTG from a particularly poignant SLE may be useful for prevention programmes targeting alcohol, marijuana and substance abuse behaviours among high-risk youth.
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