title: Attitudes of young drug users towards significant life concepts as measured by the semantic differential.
abstract: Thirty young drug users were matched for age and sex with thirty young orthopaedic outpatients. All completed an Osgood Semantic Differential. Results suggested that drug users see Drug Laws and Present Attitudes to Drug Use as bad. In the user group a poor perception of self is combined with concepts of ideal self which appear unattainable.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001290:Attitude; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007880:Legislation, Drug; D008297:Male; D009520:New Zealand; D012649:Self Concept; D012659:Semantic Differential; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000523:psychology*