1. What I found the most interesting is that scientists were able to pinpoint early in life the characteristics that would make children nonusers, some users and high users when they were in elementaty school. And the fact that they were able to predict which child would be which user is something that I had never seen before in a study.
2. The authors say that this study is important because it builds on a previous study done by Block and Block. Their study followed kids from preschool to the age of fourteen. And this study is building on that, interviewing those same kids at age 18 This study is different from others because it is the longest longitudinal study, spanning 13 years rather than three or four.
But we have seen something similar -- Raffaelli and Crockett aimed to find predictors of SRT (but it should be acknowledged that the time span in their study wasn't quite as long though)...
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