Predicting Use and Maintenance of Use of Substances in Scottish Adolescents

Studied the roles of demographic, school, nonschool, and personality factors in predicting the use of tobacco, alcohol, and illicit drugs and maintenance of this use. Findings for 425 Scottish secondary school students show different predictive factors. Discusses implications of the findings for dec...

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Published in:Journal of youth and adolescence 2001-08, Vol.30 (4), p.465-484
Main Authors: Karatzias, A, Power, K. G, Swanson, V
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Academic Achievement
Addictive behaviors
Adolescents
Adult and adolescent clinical studies
Alcohol Education
Alcohol use
Behavior Patterns
Biological and medical sciences
Child development
Cigarettes
Demography
Drinking
Drug use
Early Adolescents
Families & family life
Family (Sociological Unit)
Foreign Countries
Gender Differences
Grades (Scholastic)
Health Behavior
Institutional Characteristics
Locus of Control
Maintenance
Marijuana
Medical sciences
Miscellaneous
Narcotics
Peer Relationship
Personality
Personality Traits
Prediction
Predictors
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Quality of life
School Organization
Scotland
Secondary Education
Secondary School Students
Secondary schools
Self esteem
Smoking
Socioeconomic factors
Socioeconomic status
Substance Abuse
Teenagers
Young Adults
Young people
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Summary:Studied the roles of demographic, school, nonschool, and personality factors in predicting the use of tobacco, alcohol, and illicit drugs and maintenance of this use. Findings for 425 Scottish secondary school students show different predictive factors. Discusses implications of the findings for decreasing the prevalence of substance use. (SLD)
ISSN:0047-2891
1573-6601
DOI:10.1023/A:1010497216920