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To examine the prospective influence of adolescents' own sensation seeking and their close peers' sensation seeking on subsequent alcohol and marijuana use.

September 1, 1999Journal of Studies on Alcohol

Sensation seeking and drug use by adolescents and their friends: models for marijuana and alcohol.

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To examine the prospective influence of adolescents' own sensation seeking and their close peers' sensation seeking on subsequent alcohol and marijuana use.
Followed a prospective cohort of adolescents (N = 428; 60% female) across three time points beginning in the eighth grade.
Assessed self-reported substance use, attitudes, family relations, and integrated data from up to three nominated peers per participant.
Estimated direct and indirect pathways to alcohol and marijuana use two years later using structural equation modeling.
Peer sensation seeking exerted a direct prospective effect on adolescents' own use of both marijuana and alcohol two years later.
Individual sensation seeking influenced drug use indirectly rather than directly across the two-year follow-up period.

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Cohort study reveals peer sensation seeking directly predicts substance use in adolescents, highlighting peer group characteristics as critical drivers of teen alcohol and marijuana consumption.

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Donohew et al. (1999) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a744ed2c2eb6969bf09330c https://doi.org/10.15288/jsa.1999.60.622

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Cohort study reveals peer sensation seeking directly predicts substance use in adolescents, highlighting peer group characteristics as critical drivers of teen alcohol and marijuana consumption.

Sensation seeking and drug use by adolescents and their friends: models for marijuana and alcohol.

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Sensation seeking and drug use by adolescents and their friends: models for marijuana and alcohol.

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