Adolescent Substance Abuse + Bulimia

RISK FOR EARLY ADOLESCENT SUBSTANCE ABUSE: AN ARTICLE CRITIQUE

Nature of the Journal and Author Credibility

This article appeared in a recognized scientific, scholarly journal in the field of social science child and adolescent psychology (Flannery, Vazsonyi, Torquati, & Fridrich, 1994, pp. 195-213). The journal has an editorial review board.

The lead author is an Assistant professor of Family Studies at the University of Arizona who holds a PhD. in clinical child psychology from the Ohio State University. The secondary authors all are doctoral students in the Division of Family Studies, University of Arizona. The project was funded by a research grant from the National Institutes of Health to the lead author. Neither the statistical background of the authors nor any indication of the use of a statistician in the project were revealed in the article.

The study reported in the article examined interpersonal and intrapersonal risk for substance abuse in a sample of Caucasian and Hispanic early adolescents (sixth and seventh grade student). The authors attributed the importance of the study by the fact that, in the face of increased awareness of the physical and social consequences of drug use, the behavior continues to occur with epidemic proportion among adolescents. Thus, the authors reasoned, the identification of risk factors for future substance use may offer insights as to how to best combat the problem.

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sed the implications of the research findings. The implications could be translated into action plans to deal with the problem of adolescent substance use. Writer Opinions The research reported in this article provided useful information on risk factors for the development of early substance use by adolescents. One limitation on the applicability of the research findings may be the fact that the sample was drawn from a relatively narrow socioeconomic stratum of the American population. Social practitioners relying on the findings of this study may find it desirable to seek additional data when the target populations for which they are developing strategies are from substantially different socioeconomic strata than was the stratum targeted by the researchers whose work was reported in this article. Further, social practitioners likely would have benefited from suggestions by the authors on how the research findings reported in the article could best be applied in practice. Reference Flannery, D. J., Vazsonyi, A. T., Torquati, J., & Fridrich, A. (1994). Ethnic and gender differences in risk for early adolescent substance use. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 23(2), 195-213. FAMILY CORRELATES IN BULIMIA NERVOSA: AN ARTICL

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