Values, Expectations, and Drug Use Among High School Students in a Rural Community

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Abstract
Rotter's Social Learning Theory of Personality was used to investigate relationships among values for certain goals, expectations for achieving these goals, and self-reported drug use among high school students. It was hypothesized that students with low “freedom of movement” in important goal areas (low expectations and high values) would report (1) heavier drug usage, (2) more frequent periods of intoxication, and (3) more drug-related social complications. Support for the hypothesis was found. Low freedom of movement in the goal area of recognition-achievement did correlate with drug use in the predicted fashion, especially in the case of barbiturate and hallucinogen use.

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