A Structural Analysis of Attitudes toward Alcohol and Marijuana Use
- 2 July 1998
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
- Vol. 24 (7) , 727-735
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167298247005
Abstract
Male and female undergraduates (N = 316) completed affective, cognitive, and global evaluations of alcohol and marijuana use. The discriminant validity of the attitude components was supported. As predicted, relationships between global attitude and the affective component varied across use experience groups; for both drugs, the affective component was more related to the global scale among the most experienced users. Attitude components predicted current marijuana use in a manner that was consistent with the analyses of attitude structure. However, the affective and cognitive attitude scales were relatively poor predictors of current alcohol use, suggesting that additional information may contribute to global attitude for alcohol use. Thus, similarities on attitude structure emerged across drugs, but the ability of the attitude components to predict use behavior differentiated the drug types.Keywords
This publication has 26 references indexed in Scilit:
- Drinking motives predict alcohol-related problems in college students.Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 1997
- Heavy drinking contexts and indices of problem drinking among college students.Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 1995
- Measuring the Affective and Cognitive Properties of Attitudes: Conceptual and Methodological IssuesPersonality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 1994
- Motivations for alcohol use among adolescents: Development and validation of a four-factor model.Psychological Assessment, 1994
- Cognitive and Affective Bases of Attitudes toward Social Groups and Social PoliciesJournal of Experimental Social Psychology, 1994
- Values, Stereotypes, and Emotions as Determinants of Intergroup Attitudes**Editor's Note: This chapter was selected as the 1992 winner of the Otto Klineberg Intercultural and International Relations Award, given by the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues. In making its selection, the award committee cited the chapter for offering a “substantial advance in our understanding of basic psychological processes underlying racism, stereotyping, and prejudice”.Published by Elsevier ,1993
- High School Pupils' Attitude and Experience with Drugs in Holon, IsraelInternational Journal of the Addictions, 1993
- Prediction of leisure participation from behavioral, normative, and control beliefs: An application of the theory of planned behaviorLeisure Sciences, 1991
- Affect versus evaluation in the structure of attitudesJournal of Experimental Social Psychology, 1989
- An Application of Fishbein and Ajzen's Attitudes-Subjective Norms Model to the Study of Drug UseThe Journal of Social Psychology, 1980