ArticleAddictive behaviors2018
The association between adolescent cannabis use and anxiety: A parallel process analysis.
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- Cannabis Use and Prospective Long-Term Association with Anxiety: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Longitudinal Studies: Usage du cannabis et association prospective à long terme avec l'anxiété: une revue systématique et une méta-analyse d'études longitudinales.Canadian journal of psychiatry. Revue canadienne de psychiatrie · 2021Pooled it
- The Behavioral Sequelae of Cannabis Use in Healthy People: A Systematic Review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Pooled it
- Cannabis and Cannabinoids in Mood and Anxiety Disorders: Impact on Illness Onset and Course, and Assessment of Therapeutic Potential.The American journal on addictions · 2020Pooled it
- Anxiety development trajectories in junior high students: effects of family functioning and gender, and prediction of non-suicidal self-injury.BMC psychology · 2026Article
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- Disentangling developmental trajectories of childhood anxiety and depression symptoms in the prediction of adolescent substance use.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2025Article
- Concern for Police Brutality, Societal Discrimination, and School Shootings and Subsequent Cigarette and Cannabis Use in Los Angeles County Hispanic and Non-Hispanic White Youth: a Longitudinal Study.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2024Observational
- Adolescent-onset cannabis use and parenting young children: an investigation of differential effectiveness of a digital parenting intervention.Frontiers in child and adolescent psychiatry · 2024Article
- Do Anxiety Symptoms Mediate the Association Between Cannabis Use Frequency and Psychotic-Like Experiences in Emerging Adult Undergraduates?Canadian journal of psychiatry. Revue canadienne de psychiatrie · 2023Article
- Anxiety Modulation by Cannabinoids-The Role of Stress Responses and Coping.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Review
- Symptoms of depression and anxiety in Chinese adolescents: heterogeneity and associations with executive function.BMC psychiatry · 2023Article
- A Scoping Review of Associations Between Cannabis Use and Anxiety in Adolescents and Young Adults.Child psychiatry and human development · 2023Article
- Clinical Epigenomic Explanation of the Epidemiology of Cannabinoid Genotoxicity Manifesting as Transgenerational Teratogenesis, Cancerogenesis and Aging Acceleration.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Review
- Endocannabinoid System and Exogenous Cannabinoids in Depression and Anxiety: A Review.Brain sciences · 2023Review
- Perturbation of 3D nuclear architecture, epigenomic dysregulation and aging, and cannabinoid synaptopathy reconfigures conceptualization of cannabinoid pathophysiology: part 1-aging and epigenomics.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Review
- Perturbation of 3D nuclear architecture, epigenomic aging and dysregulation, and cannabinoid synaptopathy reconfigures conceptualization of cannabinoid pathophysiology: part 2-Metabolome, immunome, synaptome.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Review
- Assessment of Withdrawal, Mood, and Sleep Inventories After Monitored 3-Week Abstinence in Cannabis-Using Adolescents and Young Adults.Cannabis and cannabinoid research · 2022Article
- Risky decision-making as an antecedent or consequence of adolescent cannabis use: findings from a 2-year longitudinal study.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2022Article
- Shifting the Paradigm on Cannabis Safety.Cannabis and cannabinoid research · 2022Article
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Abstract
introductionAssociations between anxiety symptoms and cannabis use have been previously explored, yet the directionality of these associations remains highly debatable. The present study aims to prospectively examine patterns of cannabis use and anxiety during adolescence focusing on their co-development and bidirectional influences.
methodsAdolescents (n=250) of predominantly Hispanic ethnicity, aged 14-17 at baseline, exposed to drugs, alcohol, or cigarettes completed three (bi-annual) assessments across a 1-year period. Latent growth curve modeling (LGCM) and parallel process growth curves were conducted to examine potential associations in the joint development of anxiety and cannabis use.
resultsOur results suggest that, during adolescence, early cannabis use has a greater influence on prospective reports of anxiety, than vice versa. Specifically, adolescents exhibiting higher initial levels of cannabis use displayed more persisting self-reported anxiety across time, as compared to those with less frequent use (b=0.28, p=0.024). In contrast, early levels of anxiety were not found to influence rates of change in cannabis use. These analyses considered concurrent depression, alcohol, and nicotine use.
conclusionsOur findings suggest that prevention and targeted intervention programs for cannabis use in adolescence would benefit from anxiety management strategies; in order to reduce subsequent anxiety associated with cannabis use. Future studies should continue to employ longitudinal designs across larger time periods and aim to replicate these findings with more diverse samples.
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