CONSEQUENCES OF ADOLESCENT DRUG-USE ON YOUNG-ADULT JOB BEHAVIOR AND JOB-SATISFACTION

Longitudinal data (N=785) collected during Ss high school years(1971-1 973) and in 1981 were used to assess the influence of adolescent drug use on adult job behaviors, job satisfaction, and adverse terminations while accounting for concurrent adult drug use, years of drug use, an d adolescent achievement motivation. Relationships were minimal betwee n adolescent drug use and adult work-related indicators in confirmator y factor analyses (CFAs) and predictive path models. Although signific antly related in the CFAs, higher adolescent achievement motivation di d not predict less adult drug use when adolescent drug use was include d as a control. Less achievement motivation in adolescence significant ly predicted more negative job behaviors and less job satisfaction, bu t not terminations. Correlations were significant between more adolesc ent drug use and less adolescent achievement motivation and between ad ult job problems and adult drug use.