Faculty Sponsor: Maryam Gooyabadi
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William Lin
I am a freshman in the class of 2026 at Weslyean University. My major is College of Letters and Anthropology. I am also an international student from China who has been involved in the study of the history of the Silk Road and the study of ancient villages.
Abstract: This study aims to investigate the relationship between adolescent cocaine use and adulthood intimate partner violence (IPV) by analyzing data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. The study will examine whether individuals who used cocaine in adolescence are more likely to experience IPV in adulthood, and whether they are more likely to become the abuser or the abused. The sample consists of 6504 participants, and the data is collected from Wave 1 and Wave 5, reflecting the participants’ lives from adolescence to adulthood. A higher frequency of adolescent cocaine use is predicted to have a significant link to the higher frequency of adulthood intimate partner violence (IPV) in adulthood. However, the result from data analysis suggests that there is no significant association between adolescent cocaine use and adulthood intimate partner violence.