Substance Use and Academic Outcomes among High School Seniors: Examining the Influence of Emotional Academic Engagement

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dc.contributor.advisorArria, Amelia Men_US
dc.contributor.authorBugbee, Brittanyen_US
dc.contributor.departmentPublic and Community Healthen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2016-06-22T06:15:25Z
dc.date.available2016-06-22T06:15:25Z
dc.date.issued2016en_US
dc.description.abstractSubstance use is prevalent among adolescents, with two-thirds trying alcohol and half trying an illicit drug by twelfth grade (Miech et al., 2015). Substance use is known to affect academic performance. This study utilized nationally representative data from the 2013 Monitoring the Future twelfth grade survey to examine the relationships between substance use, skipping school, grades, and academic engagement. One-quarter of respondents (26%) had never used a substance. The majority (67%) had used at least one substance during the past year. Substance use during their lifetime but not during the past year was uncommon (7%). Lifetime non-users were less likely than past-year users to skip school during the past month and to have low grades. Lifetime non-users also had greater academic self-efficacy and emotional academic engagement relative to past-year users. These findings underscore the importance of screening and intervention for substance use to promote academic achievement and adolescent wellbeing.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/M28V2H
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/18390
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledPublic healthen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledSecondary educationen_US
dc.titleSubstance Use and Academic Outcomes among High School Seniors: Examining the Influence of Emotional Academic Engagementen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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