Reflections on the Stanford Session

Rittenhouse, Joan Dunne; Cisin, Ira H.

doi:10.1037/e497432006-025

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“…First, our causal model is tested on data obtained from a subset of data from a sample of inner city youths. The environmental context in which these youths live could be expected to place them at considerable risk of becoming involved with drugs (Clayton and Voss, 1981;Rittenhouse, 1977). In addition, the Black and Puerto Rican^ male adolescents we studied constitute a group at high risk of becoming involved in drug use (Brunswick, 1977(Brunswick, , 1979Chambers and Inciardi, 1971;Clayton and Voss, 1981); female youths, who research suggests are less at risk of using various drugs, were omitted from the analyses.…”

Section: Identification Of Riskmentioning

confidence: 99%

The influence of family relationships on marijuana use among a sample of inner city youths

et al. 1985

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This study of the etiology of drug use explores the influence of family relationship variables (parental support) on selfidentification, and alcohol and marijuana use of 258 inner-city, male adolescents. A latent variable structural model of the effect of parental support on alcohol and drug use, mediated by self-identification, was estimated using a maximum likelihood solution. Results support the adequacy of the model. Perceived family support and self-identification were significantly related to reported alcohol and marijuana use. In addition, alcohol consumption functions as a mediator variable and affects the relationship for both perceived family support and selfidentification with marijuana use. Ethnic background, Black versus Puerto Rican, did not have a direct effect on these variables. Finally, the model suggests a direct relationship between youths 1 use of alcohol and marijuana. It was hypothesized that this relationship is a product of environmental and socio-cultural contexts wherein a variety of illicit drug-taking is available, encouraged, and rewarded. The discussion examines the implications of the results for the influence of perceived family suppost and the quality of youth-family relationships for researchers. The role of alcohol use as a mediating variable is also discussed.We are grateful for the assistance given to us by the principal, teachers and parents of the junior high school who must remain anonymous. The reactions of many youngsters to earlier versions of the survey instruments were valuable to our research effort. The support and encouragement of the New York State Office of Drug Abuse Services, and especially Douglas S. Lipton,

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The influence of family relationships on marijuana use among a sample of inner city youths

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“…Despite this drawback, it should be noted that traditional survey methods for obtaining repre¬ sentative samples have limited validity when used to study heroin addiction because of such widely recognized prob¬ lems as subjects' desire to conceal information about illegal activities, the small rates of heroin use in the general community, which reduces the accuracy of estimates based on samples, and the difficulty in locating heroin-abusing subjects who may not be living in stable households. 33 Hence, the weakness of the chain-referral technique for evaluating heroin addicts must be considered in the context of the difficulties of applying any methods to the study of heroin use in the community. In addition, the primary purpose of the study was to evaluate those factors that differentiate treatment-seeking addicts from their non-treatment-seeking peers in the drug-using community.…”

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confidence: 99%