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Do Child Physical Abuse And Adolescent Peer Relationships Influence Typologies Of Illegal And Substance-Use Behaviors During Emerging Adulthood?, Susan Snyder, Casey R. Monroe
Do Child Physical Abuse And Adolescent Peer Relationships Influence Typologies Of Illegal And Substance-Use Behaviors During Emerging Adulthood?, Susan Snyder, Casey R. Monroe
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This study uses latent class analysis (LCA) to explore patterns of illegal behaviors (e.g., property and violent offenses), and substance use (e.g., alcohol, tobacco, or other drugs) among emerging adults (18 to 27 years). Data include 12,677 respondents from Wave 3 of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health). Our study found that behaviors clustered into the following four classes: (a) the illegal and substance-use behaviors class (5.33%); (b) the fighting and substance-use class (5.24%); (c) the substance use class (28.30%); and (d) the normative class (61.12%). The analysis also incorporates indicator variables from Wave 1 onto the …