Peer Isolation and Drug Use among White Non-Hispanic and Mexican American Adolescents

Social-emotional characteristics and drug use patterns of adolescents who reported having no friends (i.e. isolates) were compared to those of adolescents in drug using and non-drug using peer groups. Adolescents with no drug using peers reported lowest drug use and those with drug-using peers had h...

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Published in:Adolescence 2001-03, Vol.36 (141), p.127-139
Main Authors: Tani, Crystal R, Chavez, Ernest L, Deffenbacher, Jerry L
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Addictive behaviors
Adolescent
Adolescent Behavior
Adolescent Behavior - psychology
Adolescents
Adult and adolescent clinical studies
Affective Behavior
Alienation
Biological and medical sciences
Depression (Psychology)
Diagnostic Teaching
Drug Abuse
Drug Use
Drugs and youth
Effect Size
Emotional Response
European Continental Ancestry Group - psychology
Friendship
Hispanic Americans
Hispanic Americans - psychology
Humans
Interpersonal Competence
Interpersonal Relationship
Isolation
Juvenile drug abuse
Medical sciences
Mexican American youth
Mexican Americans
Mexico - ethnology
Miscellaneous
Narcotics
Peer Group
Peer Groups
Peer Influence
Peer Relations
Peer Relationship
Peers
Perspective Taking
Psychological aspects
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Racial Differences
Self Actualization
Shyness
Skill Development
Social Behavior
Social Isolation
Socioemotional aspects
Substance-Related Disorders - epidemiology
Teenagers
United States - epidemiology
USA
Western States
White people
Whites
Withdrawal (Psychology)
Young people
Youth
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Summary:Social-emotional characteristics and drug use patterns of adolescents who reported having no friends (i.e. isolates) were compared to those of adolescents in drug using and non-drug using peer groups. Adolescents with no drug using peers reported lowest drug use and those with drug-using peers had highest drug use, with isolated adolescents falling in between. (BF)
ISSN:0001-8449