A social-learning approach to student marijuana use.
Three hundred seventy-two college students were administered a battery of questionnaires designed to assess the predictive power of four social variables (social support, perceived sanctions, availability, family models), and six psychological ones (locus of control, mortality-conscience guilt, personal meanings, functions for continuing use, belief in consequences, societal and non-societal means of valued goal attainment) with respect to marijuana use. Results support a social learning theory interpretation of marijuana use. Users have had pleasant experiences, believe that sanctions are minimal, and that marijuana is not harmful. Six predictor variables correlated +.76 with use.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002188:Cannabis; D005260:Female; D006167:Guilt; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012056:Reinforcement, Social; D012932:Social Facilitation; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*