Young Urban Adolescents' Activity Spaces, Close Peers, and the Risk of Cannabis Use: A Social-Spatial Longitudinal Analysis.

Publisher: Informa Healthcare Country of Publication: England NLM ID: 9602153 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1532-2491 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 10826084 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Subst Use Misuse Subsets: MEDLINE

Publication: London : Informa Healthcare
Original Publication: Monticello, NY : Dekker, 1996-

Adolescent Behavior* ; Health Behavior* ; Peer Group* ; Social Environment*; Marijuana Use/*epidemiology; Adolescent ; Consumer Behavior ; Female ; Friends ; Humans ; Interpersonal Relations ; Longitudinal Studies ; Male ; Residence Characteristics ; Risk-Taking ; Spatial Analysis ; Substance-Related Disorders ; Urban Population

Background: An understudied, yet important area of youth development research is the examination of how place affects critical psychosocial processes such as identity formation, problem solving, emotional regulation, and in particular with adolescents, belongingness, autonomy, social competency, and behavioral health. A growing spatially informed literature indicates that youth interact with meaningful places as environmental strategies, shaping developmental trajectories related to behavioral health.
Objectives: The objective is to investigate the relationship between place preference and health behavior among adolescents, with a focus on substance use behavior, specifically, cannabis use. We theorize that cannabis use is associated with place preference for urban, city types of places, and that this particular place preference interacts with close peer network behaviors.
Methods: To understand the role of preferred locations, close peer relations, and mental health on cannabis use, 248 adolescents (ages 13 to 14) were studied longitudinally. Logistic regression models tested the moderating effects of peer network health (sum of close friends risk and protective behaviors) on selecting city locations (urban stress/neighborhoods) as preferred places, and subsequent cannabis use.
Results: Results indicated that peer network health moderated the effects of choosing city locations as favorite, increasing the odds of cannabis use more than eight-fold at 24 months.
Conclusions: Favorite places located in city environments appear to interact with peer risk behaviors influencing the cannabis use of young urban adolescents, even after controlling for the influence of baseline cannabis use, neighborhood disorder the home neighborhood, age, gender, and mental health effects.

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Keywords: Activity place; cannabis use; emotional dysregulation; favorite place; young adolescents

Date Created: 20180403 Date Completed: 20191107 Latest Revision: 20191107

20250114

PMC6788753

10.1080/10826084.2018.1452260

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