Valuing but Not Liking School: Revisiting the Relationship Between School Attitudes and Substance Use Among Urban Youth
Valuing but Not Liking School: Revisiting the Relationship Between School Attitudes and Substance Use Among Urban Youth
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DOI：
10.1177/0013124511406915
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发表时间：
2012-11-01
影响因子：
1.2
通讯作者：
Mennis, Jeremy
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作者：
Conner, Jerusha O.;Mason, Michael;Mennis, Jeremy
研究发现青少年物质使用与对学校的态度之间存在密切联系。然而，很少有关于这种关系的研究考虑学生对学校态度的不同维度，将对学校重要性的看法与学生在学校的情感体验的质量分开。本研究以 301 名城市青少年为样本，将其平均分为物质使用者和非物质使用者，探讨了学校态度和物质使用这两个维度之间的关系。调查结果强调了一部分青少年物质使用者，他们将学校视为他们经常度过时间的最重要的地方，并且他们对学校表示的满意度与其他使用者显着不同，但与非使用者没有显着差异。研究结果还引起人们对城市青少年普遍存在的对老师的不满的关注，表明这种不满与他们的物质使用率无关。讨论了对学校改革、辍学预防计划和未来研究的影响。
Research has found strong linkages between adolescent substance use and attitudes toward school. Few studies of this relationship, however, consider the different dimensions of students' school attitudes, separating perceptions of the importance of school from the quality of students' affective experiences therein. Using a sample of 301 urban adolescents, evenly divided into substance users and nonusers, this study examines the relationships between these two dimensions of school attitudes and substance use. Findings highlight a subset of adolescent substance users who see school as the most important place in which they routinely spend time and who differ significantly from other users, but not from nonusers, in their expressed satisfaction with school. Results also call attention to the ubiquity of urban adolescents' dissatisfaction with their teachers, showing such dissatisfaction as unrelated to their rates of substance use. Implications for school reform, dropout prevention programs, and future research are discussed.