Young Children’s Personality Traits Linked to Teen Alcohol Use

Young Children’s Personality Traits Linked to Teen Alcohol Use
By Join Together Staff | July 15, 2013 | 1 Comment | Filed in Alcohol, Research & Youth


A child’s personality traits before age 5 may help predict whether they will use alcohol in adolescence, a new study suggests.

The researchers followed about 12,600 children from the time they were born. Parents were asked about their children’s personalities in the first five years of life; after that, the researchers interviewed both the children and their parents, Fox News reports. By age 15 ½, 4,600 teens were still participating. The researchers were able to statistically extrapolate results from the teens who had dropped out of the study.

They found the personality traits in toddlers most closely associated with teen alcohol use fell into two categories: emotional instability and relatively low sociability, and high sociability, which may lead to “sensation seeking” later in life. The findings appear in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research.

“This underscores the fact that drinking during adolescence is largely a social phenomenon,” study co-author Danielle Dick of Virginia Commonwealth University said in a journal news release. “However, this doesn’t mean it’s less problematic; we know from other studies that most adolescent drinking is high risk — for example, binge drinking — and can lead to numerous negative consequences.”

She added, “People don’t enter adolescence as blank slates; they have a history of life experiences that they bring with them, dating back to early childhood. This is one of the most comprehensive attempts to understand very early childhood predictors of adolescent alcohol use in a large epidemiological cohort.” She noted the study indicates that troubled children are not the only ones who start to use alcohol. “It’s also the highly sociable kids as well. Parents should be aware of this.”

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Study Links Assault Injuries, Guns and Substance Abuse in Youth


By Join Together Staff | July 10, 2013 | 1 Comment | Filed in Alcohol, Drugs,Research & Youth


Teens and young adults who are treated in the emergency room for injury from an assault, who own or carry a gun, are more likely to have problems with substance abuse and aggressive behavior than those without guns, a new study finds.


Researchers from the University of Michigan Injury Center studied 689 teens and young adults who were treated in an emergency room for injuries from an assault. They found 23 percent reported they owned or carried a gun in the past six months. Those with guns were more likely than those without them to use illegal drugs or misuse prescription drugs, the researchers report in the journal Pediatrics. They were also more likely to have been in a serious fight in recent months, and to approve of retaliation after an injury, PsychCentralreports.


“This study zeroes in on a high-risk population of assault injured youth that has not been studied in this way previously,” lead author Patrick Carter, M.D., said in a news release. “The high rates of substance use, fighting and attitudes favoring retaliation, combined with the fact that so many of these youth had firearms, increases their risk for future firearm violence, as well as injury or death. But, our findings also provide an opportunity for public health interventions that could decrease their future firearm violence risk.”

DAILY MEMOIRS OF A RECOVE-REE JULY 8

At some point in life we get stuck by a disappointment or a heart break. If you truly think about it, it doesn't matter what it is you use to deal with that heart ache. Some use drugs, food, gambling etc. It's funny how people can experience the same type of heart ache but use different ways of dealing with it. We must have good coping skills and if we haven't been taught any that's one reason some of us might use to the point of getting numb and going through life in a blur. WE must not let the painful moments of life shut us down and keep us from moving on and finding success in life. The definition of insanity is....Doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result! We must get out of our mold and create a new one. Do not let your past determine you future. Take your past and make it a part of your future by learning and growing from it. REMEMBER JESUS LOVES YOU!

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DAILY MEMOIRS OF A RECOVE-REE JULY 3

At some point in life we get stuck by a disappointment or a heart break. If you truly think about it, it doesn't matter what it is you use to deal with that heart ache. Some use drugs, food, gambling etc. It's funny how people can experience the same type of heart ache but use different ways of dealing with it. We must have good coping skills and if we haven't been taught any that's one reason some of us might use to the point of getting numb and going through life in a blur. WE must not let the painful moments of life shut us down and keep us from moving on and finding success in life. The definition of insanity is....Doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result! We must get out of our mold and create a new one. Do not let your past determine you future. Take your past and make it a part of your future by learning and growing from it. REMEMBER JESUS LOVES YOU!

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