Trajectories of Cannabis-Related Associative Memory among Vulnerable Adolescents: Psychometric and Longitudinal Evaluations

Autor/inn/en	Shono, Yusuke; Edwards, Michael C.; Ames, Susan L.; Stacy, Alan W.
Titel	Trajectories of Cannabis-Related Associative Memory among Vulnerable Adolescents: Psychometric and Longitudinal Evaluations
Quelle	In: Developmental Psychology, 54 (2018) 6, S.1148-1158 (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Shono, Yusuke)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0012-1649
DOI	10.1037/dev0000510
Schlagwörter	Marijuana; Memory; Adolescents; Psychometrics; Longitudinal Studies; Association (Psychology); Associative Learning; Drug Use; Stimulants; Item Response Theory; Test Bias; Factor Analysis; Cues; Substance Abuse; At Risk Students; California (Los Angeles) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Gedächtnis; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Psychometry; Psychometrie; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Assoziation; Drug consumption; Substance abuse; Drogenkonsum; Droge; Item-Response-Theorie; Testkritik; Faktorenanalyse; Stichwort; Drug use; Drug consomption
Abstract	Indirect tests of memory associations relevant to cannabis have been shown to be useful in explaining and predicting adolescent cannabis use habits. This study sought to increase the understanding of adolescent cannabis-related associative memory and cannabis use behavior over time. A longitudinal sample of alternative high school students (N = 775) was assessed yearly for 3 years. The study first conducted extensive longitudinal measurement analyses of the cannabis-related word association test (WAT) applying contemporary psychometric models. Second, the study examined the longitudinal trajectories of cannabis-related associative memory and cannabis use and their contemporaneous and longitudinal relationships. Results showed that the cannabis-related WAT provided strong evidence of sound psychometric properties. Longitudinal change in cannabis-related associative memory was best described by modeling either a linearly decreasing trajectory or two separate trajectories: During middle adolescence, levels of cannabis-related associative memory were highest and stable but then gradually decreased toward late adolescence. Moreover, cannabis-related associative memory was contemporaneously predictive of cannabis use within ages 15 to 19 while controlling for the underlying growth process of cannabis use and time-invariant covariates (TICs) of gender and lifetime concurrent use of alcohol and cigarettes. Partial support of longitudinal prediction of cannabis use was also obtained from age 17 to 18 and age 19 to 20 while adjusting for growth in cannabis use and the TICs. These results demonstrated that predictive effects of cannabis-related memory associations on cannabis use were detected within some of the 1-year age spans and were consistent within ages across adolescent years. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01