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ArticleJournal of research on adolescence : the official journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence2020

The Development of Impulsivity and Sensation Seeking: Associations with Substance Use among At-Risk Adolescents.

Alexander M Wasserman, Charles W Mathias, Nathalie Hill-Kapturczak, Tara E Karns-Wright, Donald M Dougherty

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Article in Journal of research on adolescence : the official journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

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23citing papers in PubMed
3.8field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

23 citing papers in PubMed, 44 citations in OpenAlex.

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  12. Profiles of HIV-Related Knowledge and Self-Regulation Factors in At-Risk Pre-Adolescents.Children's health care : journal of the Association for the Care of Children's Health · 2025
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  17. The age-varying effects of adolescent stress on impulsivity and sensation seeking.Journal of research on adolescence : the official journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Alexander M WassermanUniversity of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8597-555X
Charles W MathiasUniversity of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, USA.
Nathalie Hill-KapturczakUniversity of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, USA.
Tara E Karns-WrightUniversity of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, USA.
Donald M DoughertyUniversity of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, USA.
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio · US

Funding

Consequences of Substance Use on the Development of Impulse ControlR01DA026868 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCIENCE CENTER · PI DOUGHERTY, DONALD M · 2010 to 2021
$6.4M
Training in Drug Abuse Research: Behavior and NeurobiologyT32DA031115 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCIENCE CENTER · PI CHARLES P FRANCE · 2011 to 2026
$5.2M
NIDA NIH HHS R01 DA026868NIDA NIH HHS T32 DA031115
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We investigated if the dual systems model could explain the increased rates of substance use among at-risk youth. This study sampled 365 adolescents, 289 of which had a family history of substance use disorder, assessed biannually between the ages 13-16 years old. Growth curve analyses revealed that higher levels of impulsivity were related to higher levels of sensation seeking and a slower rate of decline in impulsivity was related to a faster rate of increase in sensation seeking. Only family history status and sensation seeking were directly associated with substance use (marijuana, alcohol) at age 16, though family history status was also indirectly related to substance use through higher levels of impulsivity to higher levels of sensation seeking.

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Adolescent BehaviorSubstance-Related DisordersAdolescentHumansImpulsive BehaviorRisk-TakingSensation

Identifiers

PMID32951266
PMCPMC7738371
OpenAlexW3087717075

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