title: Social representations used by the parents of Mexican adolescent drug users under treatment to explain their children's drug use: gender differences in parental narratives.
abstract: The aim of this study was to explore the social representations used by the parents of adolescent drug users to explain the onset of drug use. Differences in explanations between the parents of male and female adolescents were also explored. Sixty parents who accompanied their children to four rehabilitation centers in 2004 completed two semi-structured questionnaires. In addition, indepth interviews were applied to a subsample. The explanation of the drug use was carried out through two social representations: the neglectful family and the son or daughter as an inexperienced teen. The parents-son model was well structured; however, the parents-daughter was unstructured, which suggests a higher resonance in the familial group.
authors.affiliation: Unidad de Investigación Epidemiológica y en Servicios de Salud del Adolescente, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, IMSS, Av. Tonalá No. 121. Planta alta, Tonalá Jalisco, México CP 45400. bertha.nuno@imss.gob.mx
authors.forename: Bertha Lidia
authors.initials: BL
authors.lastname: Nuño-Gutiérrez
authors.forename: José
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Alvarez-Nemegyei
authors.forename: Oscar
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Rodriguez-Cerda
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001290:Attitude; D002605:Character; D003469:Culture; D005106:Exploratory Behavior; D005260:Female; D033062:Friends / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D008132:Loneliness / Q000523:psychology; D008297:Male; D008800:Mexico; D033262:Narration; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D016487:Parenting / Q000523:psychology; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D012047:Rehabilitation Centers; D012111:Residence Characteristics; D012737:Sex Factors; D012932:Social Facilitation; D012940:Social Problems / Q000523:psychology; D012951:Socialization; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires