ArticleJournal of studies on alcohol and drugs2026
Adolescent Cannabis Expectancies Are Associated With Parental Drug Use History Via Negative Urgency.
Article in Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors.
Funding
Abstract
objectiveCannabis is the most commonly used illicit drug among U.S. adolescents. Cannabis expectancies, beliefs about the likely effects of cannabis use, often emerge before initiation and predict later use. Parental history of drug use problems is a well-established risk factor that may shape adolescents'cannabis expectancies, but the socioemotional mechanisms remain unclear. We tested whether negative urgency, rash action during intense negative emotion, mediates this association and whether behavioral inhibition, characterized by threat sensitivity and cautious responding, buffers this pathway.
methodData were drawn from three waves of the Adolescent Brain and Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study (N = 9,478; First time point (T1), M
resultsParental history of drug use problems predicted higher negative urgency at T5 (β = .058, p < .001, 95% CI [.026, .089]). Negative urgency predicted greater cannabis positive expectancies (β = .148, p < .001, 95% CI [.078, .218]) and lower negative expectancies (β = -.19, p < .001, 95% CI [-.276, -.107]). Behavioral inhibition moderated both pathways (β = -.040, p < .05, 95% CI [-.065, -.015]); (β = .033, p < .05, 95% CI [.016, .077]). Conditional indirect effects were statistically significant at low levels of behavioral inhibition and attenuated as behavioral inhibition increased. All effects remained significant after FDR correction.
conclusionsNegative urgency may help explain how parental drug use history shapes adolescents'cannabis expectancies, whereas behavioral inhibition may reduce vulnerability along this pathway. These findings identify socioemotional processes that may contribute to early intergenerational risk for cannabis use.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.