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Concurrent prediction of drug use among high risk youth
(Prédiction de l'usage de drogues chez des jeunes à haut risque)
Auteur(s) :
MAC CULLER, W. J. ;
SUSSMAN, S. ;
DENT, C. W. ;
TERAN, L.
Année
2001
Page(s) :
137-142
Langue(s) :
Anglais
Domaine :
Drogues illicites / Illicit drugs
Discipline :
EPI (Epidémiologie / Epidemiology)
Thésaurus mots-clés
ETUDE PROSPECTIVE
;
CONSOMMATION
;
JEUNE
;
POPULATION A RISQUE
;
FACTEUR DE RISQUE
;
ETHNIE
;
FAMILLE
;
DEPRESSION
;
ANXIETE
;
RECHERCHE DE SENSATION
;
PERCEPTION
;
ATTITUDE
;
PAIR
Note générale :
Addictive Behaviors, 2001, 26, 137-142
Résumé :
Correlates of drug use were examined in a continuation high school sample (n=1,315), using canonical correlation analysis. Fourteen demographic, attitudes' belief, and psychosocial pressure/ anxiety-type variables were included as concurrent predictors. Eight drug-use-related measures were also placed into the analysis as outcome variables. Two factors were revealed. White ethnicity, not being Latino, all attitude/belief measures, and family conflict and depression showed relatively high loadings on the first predictor factor, and were associated with all drug-use measures. Latino ethnicity and being relatively unacculturated (i.e., tending to speak Spanish), most of the attitude/belief measures (but not sensation seeking or spirituality), and perceived peer approval to use drugs, trait anxiety, and depression showed relatively high loadings on the second predictor factor, and were associated with the hard-drug-use measures. These results suggest that there is a subgroup of unacculturated Latino youth who are anxious, who perceive they will achieve peer approval by using drugs, and who tend to use hard drugs. Indicated drug abuse prevention strategies may need to be tailored to this subgroup when developing and implementing programming. (Editor's abstract.)
Affiliation :
Inst. for Hlth. Promotion and Disease Prevention Res., Univ. of Southern California, 1540 Alcazar Street, CHP 209, Los Angeles, CA 90089
Etats-Unis. United States.
Etats-Unis. United States.