Adolescent antecedents of high-risk driving behavior in young adulthood : substance use and parental influences.

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Shope, J.T. Waller, P.F. Raghunathan, T.E. & Patil, S.M.
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Abstract

Driver history data, in combination with previous tenth-grade questionnaire data, for 4,403 subjects were analyzed by Poisson regression models. The aim was to identify the significant substance use and parental characteristics predicting subsequent high-risk driving of new drivers through age 23-24 years. Substance use (cigarettes, marijuana, and alcohol) reported at age 15 was shown to be an important predictor of subsequent excess risk of serious offenses and serious crashes for both men and women. In addition, negative parental influences (permissive attitudes toward young people's drinking, low monitoring, nurturance, and family connectedness), were also demonstrated to increase the risk of serious offenses and serious crashes for both men and women. (A)

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C 15342 (In: C 15331 S) /83 / IRRD E203522
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In: Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine AAAM, Barcelona (Sitges), Spain, September 20-21, 1999, p. 159-173, 43 ref.

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