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APS Virtual Poster Showcase · 2020

Here for a Fun Time Not a Long Time: Do Perceptions of Life Expectancy Impact Adolescents’ Substance Use and Delinquency?

Virtual · June 2020

Poster Sessions · Developmental

  • Alec Sefian
    University California of Irvine
  • Sophia Cimino
    University of California, Irvine
  • Krista Ruivivar
    University of California, Irvine
  • Emily Kan
    University of California, Irvine
  • Elizabeth Cauffman
    University of California, Irvine

Abstract

This study examines how justice-involved adolescents’ life expectancies impact future substance use behaviors and delinquency. Using data from the Crossroads study, we found that lower life expectancy predicts greater substance use (b = -0.0061, p < 0.01) and was related to greater criminal behavior (b = -0.0049, p < 0.05).

Perception