Historique
Périodique
Peer norms regarding drug use and drug selling among household youth in a low-income "drug supermarket" urban neighborhood
(Les normes des pairs sur l'usage et la vente de drogue parmi des jeunes vivant dans des banlieues de faible niveau économique et où la drogue circule librement)
Auteur(s) :
FLOM, P. L. ;
FRIEDMAN, S. R. ;
JOSE, B. ;
CURTIS, R.
Année
2001
Page(s) :
219-232
Langue(s) :
Anglais
Domaine :
Drogues illicites / Illicit drugs
Thésaurus géographique
ETATS-UNIS
Thésaurus mots-clés
PAIR
;
NORME
;
JEUNE
;
POPULATION A RISQUE
;
ENQUETE
;
PAUVRETE
;
MINORITE
;
CONSOMMATION
;
VENTE
;
EPIDEMIOLOGIE DESCRIPTIVE
Note générale :
Drugs Education, Prevention and Policy, 2001, 8, (3), 219-232
Résumé :
Aims: To describe, illustrate, and assess the reliability and construct validity of a method for assessing peer norms regarding drug use and selling. Design and participants: Face-to-face interviews of young adults (age 18-24) selected through multi-stage probability sampling in a low-income, high drug-use, urban environment. Measurements: Subjects reported what proportion of their close friends actually encouraged them to use specific drugs, or would have objected to such use, currently and at age 15. Findings: Self-reports of peer norms are highly reliable, and have considerable construct validity in predicting drug behaviors. There is little encouragement of drug use, and substantial objection to use of drugs other than marijuana. While few subjects had many friends who encouraged them to sell drugs, about a third of the subjects said few if any of their friends would object to their selling drugs. Objection to drug use is more common, and encouragement of drug use less common, among women's peers than among men's peers. Conclusions: These items can be used to reliably and validly assess young adults' peer norms regarding drug use. Men and women report different peer norms. (Author's abstract.)
Affiliation :
National Development Res. Instit., 2 World Trade Center, New York, NY 10048
Etats-Unis. United States.
Etats-Unis. United States.