Acculturation, familism, parental monitoring, and knowledge as predictors of marijuana and inhalant use in adolescents.
The authors investigated relationships between marijuana and inhalant use and several cultural and demographic factors in Anglo American and Hispanic American adolescents (N=1,094). Outcome measures assessed lifetime and 30-day marijuana and inhalant use. Predictors and covariates used in logistic regression analyses were region, grade, gender, knowledge, acculturation, familism, and parental monitoring. Hispanic Americans exhibited higher usage across all measures. In this group, high acculturation was associated with low marijuana, but high inhalant, use. Across all participants, positive family relations and parental monitoring were strongly associated with attenuated marijuana use hut only among those most knowledgeable about drugs. Familism and monitoring were not associated with diminished usage among the less knowledgeable. For inhalants, monitoring combined with high knowledge or high familism was associated with diminished usage.
Department of Psychology, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA 91711, USA.
Juan R
JR
Ramirez
William D
WD
Crano
Ryan
R
Quist
Michael
M
Burgoon
Eusebio M
EM
Alvaro
Joseph
J
Grandpre
D000069:Acculturation; D000280:Administration, Inhalation; D000293:Adolescent; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D001130:Arizona / Q000453:epidemiology; D002648:Child; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006630:Hispanic or Latino / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D016015:Logistic Models; D008297:Male; D008385:Marijuana Smoking / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D016487:Parenting; D012306:Risk; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D044465:White People / Q000523:psychology