Test of a Bonding/Association Theory of Adolescent Drug Use

Marcos, Anastasios C.; Bahr, Stephen J.; Johnson, Richard E.

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“…That might mean that a close association with socially conforming parents offsets the association with deviant peers. In general, adolescents who reported that they were attached to their parents were less likely to become delinquent or to seek out deviant friends than were those who reported being less attached to their parents (Brook, Brook, & Whiteman, 1999;Marcos, Bahr, & Johnson, 1986;Massey & Krohn, 1986;Warr, 1993b). In accordance with social learning theory, adolescents in the former group will have more frequent and intense relationships (associations) with their parents and, therefore, are more likely to imitate their parents' socially conforming attitudes and behaviors.…”

Section: Parents and Adolescents' Deviancementioning

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Parents, Siblings, and Peers:

Ardelt

Day

2002

The Journal of Early Adolescence

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Section: Parents and Adolescents' Deviancementioning

confidence: 99%

Parents, Siblings, and Peers:

Ardelt

Day

2002

The Journal of Early Adolescence

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“…Research on prosocial bonds has demonstrated an inhibitory effect on antisocial behavior (cf. Brook et al 1990;Brook et al 1986;Kempf 1993;Krohn and Massey 1980;Marcos et al 1986;Newcomb and Bentler 1988).It is hypothesized in the social development model that an individual's behavior will be prosocial or antisocial depending upon the predominant behaviors, norms, and values held by those to whom the individual is bonded. This approach departs from traditional control theory, which asserts no causal role for bonding to antisocial others in the etiology of delinquency, characterizing relationships among delinquents as cold and brittle (Hirschi 1969).…”

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Modeling the Etiology of Adolescent Substance Use: A Test of the Social Development Model

Catalano

Kosterman

Hawkins

et al. 1996

Journal of Drug Issues

364

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The social development model is a general theory of human behavior that seeks to explain antisocial behaviors through specification of predictive developmental relationships. It incorporates the effects of empirical predictors ("risk factors" and "protective factors") for antisocial behavior and attempts to synthesize the most strongly supported propositions of control theory, social learning theory, and differential association theory. This article examines the power of social development model constructs measured at ages 9 to 10 and 13 to 14 to predict drug use at ages 17 to 18. The sample of 590 is from the longitudinal panel of the Seattle Social Development Project, which in 1985 sampled fifth grade students from high crime neighborhoods in Seattle, Washington. Structural equation modeling techniques were used to examine the fit of the model to the data. Although all but one path coefficient were significant and in the expected direction, the model did not fit the data as well as expected (CFI=.87). We next specified second-order factors for each path to capture the substantial common variance in the constructs' opportunities, involvement, and rewards. This model fit the data well (CFI=.90). We conclude that the social development model provides an acceptable fit to predict drug use at ages 17 to 18. Implications for the temporal nature of key constructs and for prevention are discussed.The social development model is a general theory of human behavior that hypothesizes similar developmental processes leading to either prosocial or antisocial outcomes (Catalano and Hawkins 1996;Hawkins and Weis 1985). The model takes a developmental life course perspective (Elliott 1994), specifying four submodels for specific periods in childhood and adolescence.The model is grounded in criminological theory and incorporates research on the etiology of different forms of antisocial behavior. It seeks to explain a broad range of distinct antisocial behaviors through specification of predictive developmental relationships. Antisocial behavior is defined here as the violation of legal codes, including those relative to age. This definition thus includes both violent and nonviolent offending and the illegal use of drugs.This article presents a test of the social development model in the context of drug abuse. In the analyses reported here, the model was tested for its fit in predicting adolescent substance use. NIH-PA Author ManuscriptNIH-PA Author Manuscript NIH-PA Author ManuscriptData from a panel of the Seattle Social Development Project were utilized in the test. Drug use measured when youth were 17 to 18 years old was predicted by social development model constructs measured when subjects were 9 to 10 and 13 to 14 years old. Overview of the TheoryThe social development model incorporates a growing body of knowledge regarding the effects of empirical predictors, or "risk factors," in the development of antisocial behavior. It is clear empirically that multiple biological, psychological, and social factors at mult...

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“…As strength of religious affiliation and parent-child relations affect the risk for delinquency (Crawford & Novak, 2002;Marcos, Bahr, & Johnson, 1986), measures of these constructs were included in all higher-order analyses as statistical controls. Religiosity was measured at Time 2 using students' responses to a question asking them whether or not they were a religious person (1 = yes, very; 2 = yes, somewhat; 3 = no, not at all).…”

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Routine Activities and Delinquency: The Significance of Bonds to Society and Peer Context

Crawford

Novak

Foston

2016

Crime & Delinquency

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This article extends prior research on routine activities and youth deviance by focusing on a broader range of routine activity patterns (RAPs) and on how their effects are conditioned by bonds to society and peer context. As hypothesized, the RAPs with the most consistent effects on delinquency were those lowest, or highest, in both structure and visibility. However, the relationship between school-related activities and delinquency was complex and varied across levels of the moderators in unexpected ways, given the structure and visibility of this RAP. Other RAPs, including unstructured peer interaction, affected delinquency independent of adolescents’ social relations, suggesting that neither social bonding nor external social control, via peer group norms, shapes the effects of situationally based opportunities for deviance on adolescents’ behaviors in a consistent manner.

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