Peer Attitudes Effects on Adolescent Substance Use: The Moderating Role of Race and Gender
Peer Attitudes Effects on Adolescent Substance Use: The Moderating Role of Race and Gender
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DOI：
10.1007/s11121-012-0353-7
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发表时间：
2014-02-01
影响因子：
3.5
通讯作者：
Zaharakis, Nikola
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作者：
Mason, Michael J.;Mennis, Jeremy;Zaharakis, Nikola
我们研究了青少年对他们亲密朋友对物质使用的态度的看法与他们自己使用香烟，酒精和大麻之间的关系。使用2010年全国药物使用和健康调查的数据，由药物滥用和精神卫生服务管理局赞助的多阶段区域概率样本（n = 17，865），我们测试了种族和性别亚组对青少年亲密朋友对过去一个月药物使用的看法的直接和调节作用。显着的影响被发现对同龄人的态度影响物质使用的所有种族和性别亚组。亲密朋友的冷漠态度与物质使用的增加和不赞成与减少使用，控制年龄，收入，家庭结构和青少年自己的态度的物质使用的风险。吸烟和大麻的使用同伴的态度显着的调节作用，发现性别和种族主持人。还检查了性别亚组的种族适度的条件效应。与男性相比，种族对亲密朋友的态度影响香烟和大麻使用的调节作用在程度和意义上对女性更强。女性大麻和香烟的使用比男性更受密友态度的影响，白人比西班牙裔和黑人更受密友的影响。与白色男性和其他种族的年轻人相比，白色女性更容易受到亲密朋友对吸烟态度的影响。以社会为导向的预防干预措施的影响进行了讨论。
We examined the relationship between adolescents' perceptions of their close friends' attitudes about substance use, and their own use of cigarettes, alcohol, and marijuana. Using data from the 2010 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, a multistage area probability sample sponsored by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (n = 17,865), we tested the direct and moderating effects of subgroups of race and gender on perceptions of adolescents' close friends on past month substance use. Significant effects were found on peer attitudes influencing substance use for all race and gender subgroups. Close friends' attitudes of indifference were associated with increased substance use and disapproval associated with reduced use, controlling for age, income, family structure, and adolescents' own attitudes of risk of substance use. Significant moderating effects of peer attitudes on cigarette and marijuana use were found for both gender and race moderators. Conditional effects of the moderation by race were also examined for gender subgroups. The moderating effect of race on close friends' attitudes impacting cigarette and marijuana use was stronger in magnitude and significance for females compared to males. Female marijuana and cigarette use was more influenced by close friends' attitudes than males, and whites were more influenced by their close friends than Hispanics and blacks. White females are more susceptible to close friends' attitudes on cigarette use as compared to white males and youth of other races. Implications for socially oriented preventive interventions are discussed.