Life-style and substance use among male African-American urban adolescents: a cluster analytic approach.
Life-style and substance use among male African-American urban adolescents: a cluster analytic approach.
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非裔美国城市男性青少年的生活方式和物质使用：聚类分析方法。
DOI：
10.1007/bf00942184
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发表时间：
1992
影响因子：
3.1
通讯作者：
Maton,KI
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文献类型：
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作者：
Zimmerman,MA;Maton,KI
Cluster analyzed four variables: school attendance, employment, church attendance, and delinquency, to develop life-style profiles. Data from 218 African-American urban adolescents were used in the study. Five meaningful clusters were retained and subjected to criterion validity analyses using measures of spirituality, participation in a voluntary organization, self-esteem, and friend's substance use. The five clusters were then compared on cigarette, alcohol, marijuana, and hard drug use. The results suggest that a life-style that includes an adaptive compensatory behavior component may be more adaptive than a life-style that does not include compensatory behavior. For example, youths who left high school before graduation but were involved in church reported less alcohol and substance use than youths who left school and were not involved in any meaningful instrumental activity. Implications for intervention and future research on high-risk behaviors are discussed.
