CORRELATES OF ADOLESCENT MARIHUANA USE AS RELATED TO AGE, SEX, AND ETHNICITY
- 1 January 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Vol. 50 (4) , 383-390
Abstract
The interactive effects of background factors and personality/attitudinal and perceived environmental dimensions on human adolescent drug behavior were studied. Data were collected during home interviews using a structured interview schedule. The sample consisted of 403 British West Indian black, American black and white adolescents, ranging in age from 13-17. Two processes, nonconformity to conventional middle class values at the personality/attitudinal and institutional level, and modeling of familial and peer drug use accounted in large part for adolescent drug behavior. The majority of correlates of adolescent drug behavior were similar in different sex, age and ethnic groups.This publication has 11 references indexed in Scilit:
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