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Grit: A Potential Protective Factor Against Substance Use and Other Risk Behaviors Among Latino Adolescents

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Guerrero, Lourdes R., Dudovitz, Rebecca, Chung, Paul J., Dosanjh, Kulwant K., Wong, Mitchell D.·2016·Academic Pediatrics
DOI 10.1016/j.acap.2015.12.016PMC PMC4821776
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Objective Grit, defined as "working strenuously toward challenges, maintaining effort and interest over years despite failure, adversity, and plateaus in progress," is strongly associated with academic achievement and life success and may also be associated with health outcomes and behaviors. We examined predictors of grit, and the association between grit and health behaviors among at-risk Latino adolescents.Methods We analyzed baseline survey data collected in 2013-2014 from a sample of 1270 9th graders in low-income neighborhoods of Los Angeles. We examined factors associated with grit and whether grit is associated with substance use and delinquent behaviors, controlling for adolescent and parent sociodemographic factors.Results In a sample of mostly Latino adolescents (89.5%), compared to those with low grit, those with high grit had significantly lower odds of alcohol use in the last 30 days (odds ratio 0.30, P < .001), marijuana use (odds ratio 0.21, P < .05), and fighting (odds ratio 0.58, P < .05). Involvement in delinquent behavior was also lower (β = -0.71, P < .001). Factors associated with more grit included authoritative parenting style, parental employment, and high self-efficacy scores.Conclusions Grit may be an important candidate protective factor against substance use and other risk behaviors among Latino adolescents.

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Authors
Guerrero, L. R., Dudovitz, R., Chung, P. J., Dosanjh, K. K., & Wong, M. D.
Affiliations
  • University of California, Los Angeles (US)
  • RAND Corporation (US)
Corresponding author
Guerrero, Lourdes R.
ORCID
Venue
Academic Pediatrics
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2016-04
Volume
16
Issue
3
Pages
275-281
ISSN
1876-2859 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1016/j.acap.2015.12.016
PMC
PMC4821776
OpenAlex
W2282682352
Cited by
92
References
36
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FWCI
8.90
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
Locations
  • Academic Pediatrics (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion)
Funders
US National Institutes of Health/National Institute on Drug Abuse (R01DA033362-03S2)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Grit, Self-Efficacy, and Motivation
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Crime Patterns and Interventions
Keywords
grit, Latino adolescents, substance use, alcohol consumption, cannabis use, delinquency, fighting, protective factors, risk-taking, authoritative parenting, parental employment, self-efficacy, low-income communities, Los Angeles
MeSH terms
Underage Drinking, Adolescent, Adolescent Behavior, Employment, Female, Hispanic or Latino, Humans, Juvenile Delinquency, Male, Marijuana Smoking, Parents, Poverty, Risk-Taking, Violence, Los Angeles, Health Behavior, Multivariate Analysis, Linear Models, Odds Ratio, Parenting, Substance-Related Disorders, Protective Factors

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