Personal and situational factors in drug use as perceived by kibbutz youth.
Sixteen 17-year-old kibbutz members, seven of them smokers, and nine nonsmokers of hashish, assessed the probability that a young person of similar background would use drugs. Two sources of information were manipulated bifactorially: personal predisposition (curiosity, risk-taking, and existential meaning) and the level of group pressure to smoke hashish. It was found that hashish smokers assigned meaningful importance to a combined influence of the two factors, while the nonsmokers considered only group pressure to be important. A tool based on the measurement method examined in this study is proposed for predicting the probability of drug use among adolescents.
Wolf
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Department of Criminology, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel.
Olenick-Shemesh
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Addad
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Green
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Walters
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D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior; D005106:Exploratory Behavior; D005260:Female; D006798:Housing; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D007557:Israel; D008297:Male; D010379:Peer Group; D012309:Risk-Taking; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders