Childhood executive control and adolescent substance use: Mediation via parent-child relationship quality.

Objective The goal of the current study was to test prospective direct and indirect associations between preschool executive control (EC), parental affective quality and harsh discipline, and adolescent substance use (e-cigarettes, cannabis, and alcohol) while accounting for participants' age, sex, family history of substance use, and family socioeconomic status. Method Participants were 313 youth (49% boys; 70.9% European American) and their parents who participated in a longitudinal cohort-sequential study on the development of EC in preschool and its associations with subsequent health outcomes. Substance use initiation and frequency (e-cigarettes, cannabis, and alcohol) were obtained via phone surveys from youth who participated in adolescent assessments. Parental affective quality and harsh discipline were obtained from parental questionnaires in adolescence. Results The direct effects from preschool EC on adolescent substance use were statistically nonsignificant for e-cigarettes, cannabis, and alcohol. Mediation analyses revealed a statistically significant indirect effect from preschool EC to adolescent use of e-cigarettes through harsh discipline (b = -0.07 [95% CI = -0.18; -0.01]; β = -0.04). The associations between preschool EC and any of the substance use outcomes in adolescence through parental affective quality were nonsignificant. Conclusions This study fills significant gaps in the emerging literature on longitudinal contributions of child characteristics to parenting behaviors, suggesting that early EC deficiencies may elicit more harsh discipline during adolescence, ultimately leading to higher adolescent engagement in e-cigarette use.

• Publication year

  2024

• Venue

  Family Relations

• Publication date

  2024-07-15

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1111/fare.13061PMID 39850093PMCID PMC11753786
• External record

  Open on Semantic Scholar

• Source metadata

  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

• No claims are published for this paper.

• No concepts are published for this paper.

• Executive function and effortful control—Similar and different evidence from big data analysis

  2022cited by this paper
• Childhood executive control and adolescent substance use initiation: the mediating roles of physical and relational aggression and prosocial behavior

  2022cited by this paper
• Constellations of family risk for long-term adolescent antisocial behavior.

  2020cited by this paper
• Reconsidering the relation between parental functioning and child externalizing behaviors: A meta-analysis on child-driven effects.

  2020cited by this paper
• E-cigarettes use in the United States: reasons for use, perceptions, and effects on health

  2020cited by this paper
• Executive Control in Early Childhood as an Antecedent of Adolescent Problem Behaviors: A Longitudinal Study with Performance-based Measures of Early Childhood Cognitive Processes

  2020cited by this paper
• Effect of alcohol use on the adolescent brain and behavior.

  2020cited by this paper
• Elaborating on premature adolescent autonomy: Linking variation in daily family processes to developmental risk

  2019cited by this paper
• Changes in Mindful Parenting: Associations With Changes in Parenting, Parent–Youth Relationship Quality, and Youth Behavior

  2018cited by this paper
• Parent–Child Informant Discrepancy is Associated with Poorer Treatment Outcome

  2018cited by this paper
• Do Executive Functions Predict Binge-Drinking Patterns? Evidence from a Longitudinal Study in Young Adulthood

  2017cited by this paper
• Executive functioning and substance use in adolescence: Neurobiological and behavioral perspectives

  2017cited by this paper
• Parental Influences on Heavy Episodic Drinking Development in the Transition to Early Adulthood.

  2017cited by this paper
• Parent–child connectedness and communication in relation to alcohol, tobacco and drug use in adolescence: An integrative review of the literature

  2017cited by this paper
• Cumulative contextual risk at birth and adolescent substance initiation: Peer mediation tests.

  2017cited by this paper
• Emotion understanding in preschool children

  2016cited by this paper
• VI. EXECUTIVE CONTROL IN PRESCHOOLERS: NEW MODELS, NEW RESULTS, NEW IMPLICATIONS.

  2016cited by this paper
• Parent, peer, and executive function relationships to early adolescent e-cigarette use: a substance use pathway?

  2015cited by this paper
• Parenting Influences on Executive Function in Early Childhood: A Review

  2014cited by this paper
• Family Matters

  2014cited by this paper
• Differential Effects of Parental Controls on Adolescent Substance Use: For Whom is the Family Most Important?

  2013cited by this paper
• Socioeconomic status and substance use among young adults: a comparison across constructs and drugs.

  2012cited by this paper
• Hot and Cool Executive Function in Childhood and Adolescence: Development and Plasticity

  2012cited by this paper
• Perceived parenting style and adolescent adjustment: revisiting directions of effects and the role of parental knowledge.

  2012cited by this paper
• Long-Term Outcomes of Incredible Years Parenting Program: Predictors of Adolescent Adjustment.

  2011cited by this paper
• The structure of executive function in 3-year-olds.

  2011cited by this paper
• Gender differences in the impact of families on alcohol use: a lagged longitudinal study of early adolescents.

  2011cited by this paper
• Neurobiology of the adolescent brain and behavior: implications for substance use disorders.

  2010cited by this paper
• Associations between family structure, family functioning, and substance use among Hispanic/Latino adolescents.

  2010cited by this paper
• A dynamic cascade model of the development of substance-use onset.

  2009cited by this paper
• Executive function in preschoolers: a review using an integrative framework.

  2008cited by this paper
• Gender Similarities and Differences in the Association Between Risk and Protective Factors and Self-Reported Serious Delinquency

  2007cited by this paper
• Parent-child connectedness and behavioral and emotional health among adolescents.

  2006cited by this paper
• Conditions under which children experience inhibitory difficulty with a "button-press" go/no-go task.

  2006cited by this paper
• Growth in temperament and parenting as predictors of adjustment during children's transition to adolescence.

  2006cited by this paper
• Executive function and the promotion of social–emotional competence

  2006cited by this paper
• Effortful control in early childhood: continuity and change, antecedents, and implications for social development.

  2000cited by this paper
• Executive functioning in preschool children: performance on A-not-B and other delayed response format tasks.

  1999cited by this paper
• Modeling long-term parent outcomes of two universal family-focused preventive interventions: one-year follow-up results.

  1999cited by this paper
• Trick or treat?: uneven understanding of mind and emotion and executive dysfunction in "hard-to-manage" preschoolers.

  1998cited by this paper
• SPECIES RICHNESS OF PARASITE ASSEMBLAGES: Evolution and Patterns

  1997cited by this paper
• Latent Variable Modeling of Longitudinal and Multilevel Substance Use Data.

  1997cited by this paper
• The Shape School: Assessing executive function in preschool children

  1997cited by this paper
• Inhibitory control in young children and its role in emerging internalization.

  1996cited by this paper
• Prefrontal cortex cognitive deficits in children treated early and continuously for PKU.

  1991cited by this paper
• Reliability and Discriminant Validity of the Children's Drug-Use Survey

  1985cited by this paper
• Please Scroll down for Article the Clinical Neuropsychologist the Development of a Trial Making Test in Young Children: the Trails- P the Development of a Trial Making Test in Young Children: the Trails-p

  year unknowncited by this paper

• No citing papers are available for this paper.