Peer pressure and adolescent substance use

Reed, Mark D.; Rountree, Pamela Wilcox

doi:10.1007/bf02221306

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“…Based on research which has examined the direct, additive and interactive effects of differential association and susceptibility to peer influence (Dielman et al 1990;Flannery et al 1994;McIntosh et al 22003;Miller 2010;Reed and Rountree 1997;Sullivan 2006), this study incorporates a measure of the latter in order to fully consider what factors may also assist in elucidating the acculturation-drug use link. Collectively, these studies have found that susceptibility to peer influence was significantly and independently related to both serious and minor forms of delinquency and drug use net of other social learning and control variables.…”

Section: Peer Influencementioning

confidence: 99%

Acculturation, Social Context, and Drug Use: Findings from a Sample of Hispanic Adolescents

Miller

2010

Am J Crim Just

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Criminologists have largely neglected the influence of acculturation in the etiology of Hispanic drug use and delinquency. This is somewhat surprising since a long line of research from several disciplines has consistently linked higher levels of acculturation to greater incidence of negative social, health, and behavioral outcomes. A major shortcoming of this extant literature, however, is its failure to consider the acculturation-drug use link within a particular explanatory framework. This study attempts to address this oversight by examining the acculturation-drug use relationship within the context of gang membership, drug availability, and susceptibility to peer influence. Using data from a sample of Mexican-American adolescents residing in the American Southwest, a series of regression equations were estimated exploring the relative effects of acculturation, gang membership, drug availability, and susceptibility to peer influence on drug use. Separate analyses were conducted on minor (e.g., alcohol, marijuana) and major (e.g., cocaine, heroin) drug use. Findings indicated that all study variables, except acculturation, were significantly related to drug use.

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Section: Peer Influencementioning

confidence: 99%

Acculturation, Social Context, and Drug Use: Findings from a Sample of Hispanic Adolescents

Miller

2010

Am J Crim Just

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“…These items ('So that others won't kid me' and 'Because my friends pressure me to') relate to direct or overt peer pressure (compliance rather than conformity), whereas the three remaining items relate to indirect or normative peer influence or socialization. The relevance of overt peer pressure has been scrutinized for some years (Denscombe, 2001) and studies have found no effects on substance use in adolescence (Reed & Rountree, 1997;Stewart-Knox et al, 2005). Resistance to peer influence in general, and presumably overt peer pressure in particular, increases with age (Steinberg & Monahan, 2007).…”

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Reliability and validity of the Marijuana Motives Measure among young adult frequent cannabis users and associations with cannabis dependence

Benschop¹,

Liebregts²,

Pol³

et al. 2015

Addictive Behaviors

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“…Within the adolescent literature, the social processes of selection and infl uence have been conceptualized as important proximal factors that affect teens' tobacco, alcohol, and other substance use (Ennett and Bauman, 1994;Reed and Rountree, 1997). For the current sample of middleaged husbands and wives in long-term marriages, the initial partner selection effects were likely to have occurred years before and thus were part of a dyadic process that was not evaluated in the specifi ed APIM.…”

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confidence: 99%

A Prospective Study of Alcohol Use Among Middle-Aged Adults and Marital Partner Influences on Drinking

Windle

2014

J. Stud. Alcohol Drugs

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ABSTRACT. Objective: The purpose of this three-wave longitudinal study was twofold. First, prevalence data on alcohol characteristics (e.g., drinks per day, heavy episodic drinking [HED]) were provided for a community sample of middle-aged adults. Aggregate (or group) and individual levels of stability of these characteristics across a 10-year interval were a major focus. Second, an actor-partner interdependence model (APIM) was used to test husbands' and wives' mutual infl uences on each other's alcohol use. Method: Prospective data were collected from the middle-aged parents of a cohort study that originally targeted adolescents. Three measurement occasions occurred at baseline, 5 years later, and an additional 5 years later. Data from 597 men and 847 women were used to derive prevalence data on alcohol use, and 489 intact marital dyads were used to test spouses' interdependence on alcohol use and HED in the APIMs. Results: The majority of men and women reported alcohol use at each measurement occasion, and the average number of drinks per day was highly similar across time, as was the percentage reporting HED. There was substantial stability at the individual level in the amount of alcohol consumed and HED between waves of measurement. Marital partners had signifi cant but modest effects on each other's alcohol use. Wives had a somewhat greater infl uence on their husbands' drinking than vice versa. Conclusions: The majority of middle-aged adults consumed alcohol at a low to moderate level. However, there is heterogeneity in alcohol use patterns, and a signifi cant minority reported at-risk levels of alcohol use and HED. (J. Stud. Alcohol Drugs, 75, 546-556, 2014)

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Peer pressure and adolescent substance use

Cited by 77 publications

References 46 publications

Acculturation, Social Context, and Drug Use: Findings from a Sample of Hispanic Adolescents

Acculturation, Social Context, and Drug Use: Findings from a Sample of Hispanic Adolescents

Reliability and validity of the Marijuana Motives Measure among young adult frequent cannabis users and associations with cannabis dependence

A Prospective Study of Alcohol Use Among Middle-Aged Adults and Marital Partner Influences on Drinking

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