PROJECTS WITHIN SSDP
While SSDP is an ongoing lifecourse study, we generally receive support to conduct specific projects within SSDP to examine particular research questions. Three currently funded studies within SSDP are:
Adult Development & Mental Health (ADAMH)This study examines the course, consequences, predictors, and prevention of depression, social phobia, and generalized anxiety, as well as their co-occurrence with risk for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and substance abuse and dependence in young adulthood in the SSDP sample through age 33. Analyses focus on the longitudinal patterns of these outcomes in the 20s and 30s, and the consequences of these patterns for healthy adult functioning, including positive behavior, physical health, and utilization of health services. Analyses include an examination of the effects of patterns of depression and anxiety on HIV risk. The study also examines the role of social developmental processes and proximal stressful life events in explaining patterns of depression and anxiety and their co-occurrence with HIV risk and substance abuse/dependence in young adulthood, as well as the long-term effects of the SSDP intervention in the elementary grades on these patterns.
Date: 2006 - 2011PI: Rick Kosterman
Funding: National Institute on Drug Abuse
Understanding Alcohol Misuse, Abuse and Dependence in Young Adulthood (NIAAA)
This study is examining the occurrence and course of binge drinking, alcohol abuse and alcohol dependence in young adulthood (ages 21 to 30) in the Seattle Social Development Project panel. The study seeks to understand the relationship between childhood and adolescent patterns of alcohol use and young adult binge drinking, alcohol abuse and alcohol dependence through age 33, and the role of social-developmental factors in influencing these patterns. The study will provide information of use to those designing preventive and treatment interventions for alcohol misuse, alcohol abuse and alcohol dependence. Co-investigators include Jennifer Bailey, David Hawkins and Richard Catalano, and they are joined by Jennifer Maggs of Penn State University.
Date: 2009 - 2011PI: Karl G. Hill
Project Director: Jennifer A. Bailey
Funding: Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
Gene Environment Interplay in the Development of Addiction (GEDI)
Tobacco and alcohol abuse and dependence are leading preventable causes of disease and death in the United States. Vulnerability to develop tobacco and alcohol dependence and comorbid problems is influenced by a combination of environmental and genetic factors. This two year grant will allow the Seattle Social Development Project to proceed with collecting and analyzing genetic information on the SSDP sample, and begins a program study on how genes and environment work together in affecting the development of tobacco and alcohol addiction in adulthood. Co-investigators include Jennifer Bailey, David Hawkins and Richard Catalano (UW, SSW) and they are joined by collaborators Matt McQueen and John Hewitt at the Institute for Behavioral Genetics (UC Boulder).
Date: 2009 - 2011PI: Karl G. Hill
Project Director: Jennifer A. Bailey
Funding: National Institute on Drug Abuse
