Life experiences, identity and adolescent soft drug use in the Netherlands.
The authors examined four factors: 1) the effects of youngsters' vocational and relationship experiences on their soft drug use, directly or by identity formation; 2) the effects of adherence to non-traditional values of youngsters on their soft drug use directly or by identity formation; 3) the eff...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Alcohol & Drug Education Vol. 45; no. 1; pp. 47 - 60 |
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American Alcohol & Drug Information Foundation
Fall99
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| Sumario: | The authors examined four factors: 1) the effects of youngsters' vocational and relationship experiences on their soft drug use, directly or by identity formation; 2) the effects of adherence to non-traditional values of youngsters on their soft drug use directly or by identity formation; 3) the effects of parental divorce and parental affective involvement on youngsters' soft drug use; and 4) the differences in these effects on boys and girls. Data were used from the Dutch national panel study Utrecht Study of Adolescent Development (USAD), a study of developmental processes as they occur in the life course of young people during the 1990s. Using linear structural relation (LISREL) model, we tested hypotheses on two waves of a sample of 1966 respondents between 15 and 27 years-of-age. Vocational and relationship experiences in adolescence were found to correlate with the use of soft drugs. A low score on relational identity was found to be only a minor risk factor for using soft drugs. Adherence to non-conventional norms and values increase the chance of using soft drugs. |
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