DRUG ABUSE AND INTERPERSONAL VALUES

• NCJ Number: 14310
• Author(s): C F Roberts; J Ward
• Date Published: 1974
• Length: 13 pages
• Grant Number(s): 1181E
• Sponsoring Agency: California Council on Criminal Justice
• Corporate Author: California Dept of the Youth Authority
• Sale Source: National Institute of Justice/
• Publication Type: Report (Study/Research)
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

A STUDY TO DETERMINE IF THERE ARE SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES IN INTERPERSONAL VALUES BETWEEN DRUG ABUSERS AND NONABUSERS DID NOT INDICATE ANY APPARENT PATTERN OF DIFFERENCE.

Abstract

THE EXPERIMENT INVESTIGATED THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EXPRESSED VALUES AND DRUG ABUSE. OVER A PERIOD OF FOUR MONTHS, IN SMALL GROUPS 521 MALE WARDS WERE ADMINISTERED. THE SURVEY OF INTERPERSONAL VALUES, WHICH MEASURED VALUES IN THE FOLLOWING AREAS: SUPPORT, CONFORMITY, RECOGNITION, INDEPENDENCE, BENEVOLENCE, AND LEADERSHIP. OF THOSE GIVEN THE TEST, 228 WERE IDENTIFIED DRUG ABUSERS AND COMPRISED THE EXPERIMENTAL GROUP. THE CONTRL GROUP WAS COMPOSED OF THE REMAINING 293 WARDS WHO WERE NOT IDENTIFIED AS DRUG ABUSERS. ANALYSIS OF THE RESULTS SHOWED NO SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE SCORES OF THE ABUSERS AND NONABUSERS ON ANY OF THE FACTORS MEASURED. THERE WERE, HOWEVER, IMPORTANT DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE GROUPS IN REGARD TO AGE AND RACE. ANALYSIS OF THE SCORES OF SUB-GROUPS OF DRUG ABUSERS SIMILARLY SHOWED NO SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES BETWEEN GROUPS. (AUTHOR ABSTRACT MODIFIED)