Citation

Dev. Psychol. 2019; 55(10): e2146.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, American Psychological Association)

DOI

10.1037/dev0000814

PMID

31566405

Abstract

Reports an error in "Mexican-origin youth substance use trajectories: Associations with cultural and family factors" by Rick A. Cruz, Kevin M. King, Molly Mechammil, Mayra Bámaca-Colbert and Richard W. Robins (Developmental Psychology, 2018[Jan], Vol 54[1], 111-126). In the original article, Tables 3 through 6 contained formatting errors. In Tables 3 and 4, the headers for columns 6 and 7 (Overall X ² undefined and Occasional use M (SE)) were corrected to match the header formatting used in the other columns. The headers in Tables 5 and 6 for columns 2 and 3 (Late-onset and Adolescent limited) were repeated across the remaining columns. The online version of this article has been corrected. (The following abstract of the original article appeared in record 2017-42050-001.) The current study identified alcohol and cannabis use trajectories among a sample of Mexican-origin youth and examined cultural and familial correlates from childhood to adolescence. Mexican-origin youth (N = 674) from Northern California were assessed annually from ages 10 to 17 (8 waves). Latent class growth modeling examined variability in developmental trajectories for last 3-month alcohol and cannabis use frequency. Analyses also examined between-trajectory differences in youth's cultural practices and values, family cultural conflict, general parent-child conflict, and parental monitoring at 4 time points from ages 10 to 16. Analyses resulted in a 4-class model for alcohol use, comprising nonusers (62%), early-increasing (10%), adolescent-limited (11%), and late-onset (17%) subgroups, and a 4-class model for cannabis use, including nonusers (74%), early-increasing (8%), occasional use (16%), and high-declining (2%) subgroups.

FINDINGS suggested that early language use (higher English at age 10 and lower Spanish at age 12) was a temporally distal marker for several alcohol and cannabis use trajectories, whereas lower traditional family values at ages 14 and 16 were associated with several classes characterized by early substance use. Elevations in familial (parent-child conflict, parental monitoring) risk factors co-occurred in time and generally suggested temporally proximal connections with substance use behavior. Further, there was evidence that a less prominent decline in certain protective factors (e.g., father monitoring) was associated with reductions in substance use. These findings inform the literature by describing youth subgroups with variable risk for substance use development, and suggest modifiable risk factors associated with more frequent substance use trajectories. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).

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