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 logisti...

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Published in:Psychology of addictive behaviors 2004-03, Vol.18 (1), p.3-11
Main Authors: Ramirez, Juan R, Crano, William D, Quist, Ryan, Burgoon, Michael, Alvaro, Eusebio M, Grandpre, Joseph
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Acculturation
Addictive behaviors
Administration, Inhalation
Adolescent
Adolescent Development
Adult and adolescent clinical studies
Analysis of Variance
Arizona - epidemiology
Biological and medical sciences
Cannabis
Cannabis Use
Child
Cross-Cultural Comparison
Demographic Characteristics
Drug abuse
Drug addiction
Ethnic differences
European Continental Ancestry Group - psychology
Family
Family - psychology
Female
Hispanic Americans - psychology
Human
Human Sex Differences
Humans
Inhalant Abuse
Inhalants
Knowledge Level
Latinos/Latinas
Logistic Models
Male
Marijuana Smoking - epidemiology
Marijuana Smoking - prevention & control
Medical sciences
Monitoring
Parent Child Relations
Parenting
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Regional Differences
Risk
Sociocultural Factors
Substance-Related Disorders - epidemiology
Substance-Related Disorders - prevention & control
USA
White People
Young people
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Summary: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 but 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.
ISSN:0893-164X
1939-1501
DOI:10.1037/0893-164X.18.1.3