Evaluating longitudinal relationships between parental monitoring and substance use in a multi-year, intensive longitudinal study of 670 adolescent twins
IntroductionParental monitoring is a key intervention target for adolescent substance use, however this practice is largely supported by causally uninformative cross-sectional or sparse-longitudinal observational research designs.MethodsWe therefore evaluated relationships between adolescent substan...
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author | Jordan D. Alexander Samantha M. Freis Stephanie M. Zellers Robin Corley Amy Ledbetter Rachel K. Schneider Chanda Phelan Hariharan Subramonyam Maia Frieser Gianna Rea-Sandin Michelle E. Stocker Helen Vernier Ming Jiang Yan Luo Qi Zhao Sally Ann Rhea John Hewitt Monica Luciana Matt McGue Sylia Wilson Paul Resnick Naomi P. Friedman Scott I. Vrieze |
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description | IntroductionParental monitoring is a key intervention target for adolescent substance use, however this practice is largely supported by causally uninformative cross-sectional or sparse-longitudinal observational research designs.MethodsWe therefore evaluated relationships between adolescent substance use (assessed weekly) and parental monitoring (assessed every two months) in 670 adolescent twins for two years. This allowed us to assess how individual-level parental monitoring and substance use trajectories were related and, via the twin design, to quantify genetic and environmental contributions to these relationships. Furthermore, we attempted to devise additional measures of parental monitoring by collecting quasi-continuous GPS locations and calculating a) time spent at home between midnight and 5am and b) time spent at school between 8am-3pm.ResultsACE-decomposed latent growth models found alcohol and cannabis use increased with age while parental monitoring, time at home, and time at school decreased. Baseline alcohol and cannabis use were correlated (r = .65) and associated with baseline parental monitoring (r = −.24 to −.29) but not with baseline GPS measures (r = −.06 to −.16). Longitudinally, changes in substance use and parental monitoring were not significantly correlated. Geospatial measures were largely unrelated to parental monitoring, though changes in cannabis use and time at home were highly correlated (r = −.53 to −.90), with genetic correlations suggesting their relationship was substantially genetically mediated. Due to power constraints, ACE estimates and biometric correlations were imprecisely estimated. Most of the substance use and parental monitoring phenotypes were substantially heritable, but genetic correlations between them were not significantly different from 0.DiscussionOverall, we found developmental changes in each phenotype, baseline correlations between substance use and parental monitoring, co-occurring changes and mutual genetic influences for time at home and cannabis use, and substantial genetic influences on many substance use and parental monitoring phenotypes. However, our geospatial variables were mostly unrelated to parental monitoring, suggesting they poorly measured this construct. Furthermore, though we did not detect evidence of genetic confounding, changes in parental monitoring and substance use were not significantly correlated, suggesting that, at least in community samples of mid-to-late adolescents, the two may not be causally related. |
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spelling | doaj.art-15f0aec0d21c406d852ad35c613574e32023-05-12T05:50:53ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychiatry1664-06402023-05-011410.3389/fpsyt.2023.11490791149079Evaluating longitudinal relationships between parental monitoring and substance use in a multi-year, intensive longitudinal study of 670 adolescent twinsJordan D. Alexander0Samantha M. Freis1Stephanie M. Zellers2Robin Corley3Amy Ledbetter4Rachel K. Schneider5Chanda Phelan6Hariharan Subramonyam7Maia Frieser8Gianna Rea-Sandin9Michelle E. Stocker10Helen Vernier11Ming Jiang12Yan Luo13Qi Zhao14Sally Ann Rhea15John Hewitt16Monica Luciana17Matt McGue18Sylia Wilson19Paul Resnick20Naomi P. Friedman21Scott I. Vrieze22Psychology Department, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United StatesInstitute for Behavioral Genetics, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United StatesInstitute for Molecular Medicine Finland, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, FinlandInstitute for Behavioral Genetics, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United StatesInstitute for Behavioral Genetics, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United StatesPsychology Department, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United StatesSchool of Information, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United StatesGraduate School of Education, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesInstitute for Behavioral Genetics, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United StatesPsychology Department, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United StatesInstitute for Behavioral Genetics, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United StatesInstitute for Behavioral Genetics, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United StatesDepartment of Computer Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United StatesDepartment of Computer Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United StatesDepartment of Computer Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United StatesInstitute for Behavioral Genetics, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United StatesInstitute for Behavioral Genetics, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United StatesPsychology Department, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United StatesPsychology Department, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United StatesInstitute of Child Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United StatesSchool of Information, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United StatesInstitute for Behavioral Genetics, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United StatesPsychology Department, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United StatesIntroductionParental monitoring is a key intervention target for adolescent substance use, however this practice is largely supported by causally uninformative cross-sectional or sparse-longitudinal observational research designs.MethodsWe therefore evaluated relationships between adolescent substance use (assessed weekly) and parental monitoring (assessed every two months) in 670 adolescent twins for two years. This allowed us to assess how individual-level parental monitoring and substance use trajectories were related and, via the twin design, to quantify genetic and environmental contributions to these relationships. Furthermore, we attempted to devise additional measures of parental monitoring by collecting quasi-continuous GPS locations and calculating a) time spent at home between midnight and 5am and b) time spent at school between 8am-3pm.ResultsACE-decomposed latent growth models found alcohol and cannabis use increased with age while parental monitoring, time at home, and time at school decreased. Baseline alcohol and cannabis use were correlated (r = .65) and associated with baseline parental monitoring (r = −.24 to −.29) but not with baseline GPS measures (r = −.06 to −.16). Longitudinally, changes in substance use and parental monitoring were not significantly correlated. Geospatial measures were largely unrelated to parental monitoring, though changes in cannabis use and time at home were highly correlated (r = −.53 to −.90), with genetic correlations suggesting their relationship was substantially genetically mediated. Due to power constraints, ACE estimates and biometric correlations were imprecisely estimated. Most of the substance use and parental monitoring phenotypes were substantially heritable, but genetic correlations between them were not significantly different from 0.DiscussionOverall, we found developmental changes in each phenotype, baseline correlations between substance use and parental monitoring, co-occurring changes and mutual genetic influences for time at home and cannabis use, and substantial genetic influences on many substance use and parental monitoring phenotypes. However, our geospatial variables were mostly unrelated to parental monitoring, suggesting they poorly measured this construct. Furthermore, though we did not detect evidence of genetic confounding, changes in parental monitoring and substance use were not significantly correlated, suggesting that, at least in community samples of mid-to-late adolescents, the two may not be causally related.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1149079/fullcannabisalcoholadolescenceGPSparental monitoringbehavioral genetics |
spellingShingle | Jordan D. Alexander Samantha M. Freis Stephanie M. Zellers Robin Corley Amy Ledbetter Rachel K. Schneider Chanda Phelan Hariharan Subramonyam Maia Frieser Gianna Rea-Sandin Michelle E. Stocker Helen Vernier Ming Jiang Yan Luo Qi Zhao Sally Ann Rhea John Hewitt Monica Luciana Matt McGue Sylia Wilson Paul Resnick Naomi P. Friedman Scott I. Vrieze Evaluating longitudinal relationships between parental monitoring and substance use in a multi-year, intensive longitudinal study of 670 adolescent twins Frontiers in Psychiatry cannabis alcohol adolescence GPS parental monitoring behavioral genetics |
title | Evaluating longitudinal relationships between parental monitoring and substance use in a multi-year, intensive longitudinal study of 670 adolescent twins |
title_full | Evaluating longitudinal relationships between parental monitoring and substance use in a multi-year, intensive longitudinal study of 670 adolescent twins |
title_fullStr | Evaluating longitudinal relationships between parental monitoring and substance use in a multi-year, intensive longitudinal study of 670 adolescent twins |
title_full_unstemmed | Evaluating longitudinal relationships between parental monitoring and substance use in a multi-year, intensive longitudinal study of 670 adolescent twins |
title_short | Evaluating longitudinal relationships between parental monitoring and substance use in a multi-year, intensive longitudinal study of 670 adolescent twins |
title_sort | evaluating longitudinal relationships between parental monitoring and substance use in a multi year intensive longitudinal study of 670 adolescent twins |
topic | cannabis alcohol adolescence GPS parental monitoring behavioral genetics |
url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1149079/full |
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