NCJ Number
131921
Journal
International Journal of the Addictions Volume: 23 Issue: 1 Dated: (1988) Pages: 87-107
Date Published
1988
Length
21 pages
Annotation
Over 900 high school students who participated in their school's drug abuse prevention/early intervention programs completed questionnaires regarding the relationship between their daily marijuana use and various personality, familial, and behavioral characteristics.
Abstract
Some of the variables analyzed in this study include gender, socioeconomic status, intactness of parental home, grades, truancy, friends' use of alcohol and illicit drugs, level of cigarette smoking, and multiple drug use. Behavioral characteristics, including delinquency and personality variables including rebelliousness, tolerance of deviance, and depression, were also studied. The findings indicate that the primary association is produced by virtue of the fact that marijuana use is one component of a large and complex picture of interrelated problems and behaviors. In fact, when taken into account with other critical factors including lifetime cigarette smoking, lifetime multiple drug use, gender, illicit drug use, and rebelliousness, the level of marijuana use does not make a significant independent contribution to school-related problems. 6 tables, 2 figures, 4 notes, and 26 references (Author abstract modified)