A two-stage model of peer influence in adolescent substance use: individual and relationship-specific differences in susceptibility to influence

Urberg, Kathryn A.; Luo, Qing; Pilgrim, Colleen; Değirmencioğlu, Serdar M.

doi:10.1016/s0306-4603(02)00256-3

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“…This might have happened because levels of parental knowledge and punishment might be related to parents' own personal experience with drugs; it is likely that parents' are more familiar with marijuana use than with ecstasy use. Our results replicate and extend previous findings in the area of adolescents' attitudes towards drug use (Musher-Eizenman et al 2003;Urberg et al, 2003;van den Bree and Pickworth, 2005;Sargent and Dalton, 2001;Hyatt and Collins, 2000). None of these studies have explored the association of ecstasy use with adolescents' perceptions of friends' attitudes towards drug use.…”

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confidence: 90%

“…Adolescents' perceptions that their peers approve of substance use and consider substance use normative substantially influences their own substance use (Musher-Eizenman et al, 2003;Urberg et al, 2003;van den Bree and Pickworth, 2005). Parental attitudes (Wood et al, 2004;Sargent and Dalton, 2001) and permissiveness have been associated with adolescents' substance use (Wood et al, 2004;Hyatt and Collins, 2000).…”

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Do adolescent ecstasy users have different attitudes towards drugs when compared to marijuana users?

Martins

Storr

Alexandre

et al. 2008

Drug and Alcohol Dependence

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Background-Perceived risk and attitudes about the consequences of drug use, perceptions of others expectations and self-efficacy influence the intent to try drugs and continue drug use once use has started. We examine associations between adolescents' attitudes and beliefs towards ecstasy use; because most ecstasy users have a history of marijuana use, we estimate the association for three groups of adolescents: non-marijuana/ecstasy users, marijuana users (used marijuana at least once but never used ecstasy) and ecstasy users (used ecstasy at least once).Methods-Data from 5,049 adolescents aged 12-18 years old who had complete weighted data information in Round 2 of the Restricted Use Files (RUF) of the National Survey of Parents and Youth (NSPY). Data were analyzed using jackknife weighted multinomial logistic regression models.Results-Adolescent marijuana and ecstasy users were more likely to approve of marijuana and ecstasy use as compared to non-drug using youth. Adolescent marijuana and ecstasy users were more likely to have close friends who approved of ecstasy as compared to non-drug using youth. The magnitudes of these two associations were stronger for ecstasy use than for marijuana use in the final adjusted model. Our final adjusted model shows that approval of marijuana and ecstasy use was more strongly associated with marijuana and ecstasy use in adolescence than perceived risk in using both drugs.Conclusion-Information about the risks and consequences of ecstasy use need to be presented to adolescents in order to attempt to reduce adolescents' approval of ecstasy use as well as ecstasy experimentation.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Do adolescent ecstasy users have different attitudes towards drugs when compared to marijuana users?

Martins

Storr

Alexandre

et al. 2008

Drug and Alcohol Dependence

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“…Research has confirmed that parental monitoring may act as a protective factor against association with peers who engage in substance use behaviors [20]. Furthermore, adolescents who did not value spending time with parents were more apt than others to choose friends who smoked cigarettes [48].…”

Section: Parental Monitoring Delinquent Behaviors and Adolescent CImentioning

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Sensation Seeking and Adolescent Cigarette Smoking: Examining Multiple Pathways in Cross-Sectional Data

Banerjee¹,

Greene²

2009

TOADDJ

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This study applies Jessor and Jessor's problem behavior theory to examine factors predicting adolescent smoking behavior both directly and indirectly. Measures include adolescent smoking and other psychosocial variables including sensation seeking, peer smoking behavior, parental monitoring, and delinquent behaviors. Middle school students (N = 260) from two schools in the northeast United States participated in the study. The results indicate that sensation seeking and parental monitoring contribute to adolescent smoking indirectly, through the mediation of peer smoking behavior and engagement in delinquent behaviors. Peer smoking behavior and delinquent behaviors predict adolescent smoking directly. Implications of these findings are discussed.Keywords: Adolescent smoking, peer smoking, parental monitoring, problem behavior theory, sensation seeking.Tobacco use primarily begins in early adolescence [1]. Each day, 6000 children under 18 years smoke their first cigarette [2]. Mowery, Farrelly, Haviland, et al. [3] report that 51% of the US population aged 11 to 18 years have tried smoking and about 300,000 adolescent established smokers are in the age group of 11 to 14 years. Each year smoking causes approximately 435,000 premature deaths and over 5 million years of potential life lost [4]. Findings from the Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS) suggest that tobacco use will contribute to more than 10 million deaths per year by 2020 [5]. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [6] estimate that 6.4 million current child smokers will eventually die prematurely from a smoking-related disease.The Surgeon General's report of 1994 described the health problems caused by cigarette smoking among young people, including cough and phlegm production, an increase in the number and severity of respiratory illnesses, decreased physical fitness, and potential retardation in the rate of lung growth and the level of maximum lung function [7]. When smoking begins at an early age, the risk of heavy smoking and nicotine addiction increases [8]. Tobacco use in adolescence is also associated with a range of health-compromising behaviors including being involved in fights, carrying weapons, engaging in high-risk sexual behavior, and using alcohol and other drugs [9].Given such alarming incidence and consequences of cigarette smoking, it is key to explore reasons why adolescents begin smoking. The present study examines the role of different personality, environmental, and behavioral predictors of adolescent smoking by employing problem behavior theory [10,11]. Problem behavior theory has been utilized in past research to examine adolescent and/or youth smoking [12,13]. For instance, Costa et al. [13] employed factors such *Address correspondence to this author at the Communication and Health Issues Partnership for Education and Research, Rutgers University, 4 Huntington Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA; E-mail: smita.banerjee@gmail.com such as perceived peer pressure, stress, depression, selfesteem, academic involv...

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“…A similar procedure was applied for subsequent waves. With hierarchical multiple regression analyses, we examined whether adolescents selected their partners based on similarity in alcohol consumption over time (see e.g., [54] for similar procedures). As such it was tested whether adolescents who were not involved with a partner at T1 acquired a partner at T2 (partly) based on similarities in their alcohol consumption, which implies selection [54].…”

Section: J Statistical Analysesmentioning

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The crown of love: intimate relations and alcohol use in adolescence

Zwaluw¹,

Vermulst²,

Buitelaar³

et al. 2009

Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry

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Background: Remarkably, little attention has been paid to the role of intimate partners and their drinking behavior in relation to adolescent alcohol use. In the current study, we examined associations between adolescent alcohol use and romantic partners’ drinking behavior. Methods: A total of 428 families, consisting of both parents and two adolescents (aged 13.4 and 15.2 at Time 1) participated in a prospective study with four annual waves. Correlations and multivariate regressions were used to examine (1) similarity in drinking behaviors of adolescents and intimate partners, (2) whether alcohol use of partners prospectively predicts adolescent alcohol consumption, and (3) whether adolescents who consume alcohol select partners over time who show similar drinking behaviors. Results: (1) Frequency of alcohol consumption of adolescents and of their romantic partners correlated significantly. (2) Alcohol use of partners was not predictive of adolescent alcohol consumption over time, if previous levels of alcohol consumption were taken into account. (3) Adolescents acquired partners with similar drinking behaviors. Gender effects were found; adolescent girls, but not boys, were more likely to become involved with partners who also frequently consumed alcohol. Conclusions: Regarding alcohol consumption, adolescents and their intimate partners were relatively similar in alcohol use. This resemblance is best explained by adolescents’ selection of future partner on the basis of alcohol consumption. Less indication was found for influence effects, perhaps due to the transient nature of most adolescent romantic relationships

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A two-stage model of peer influence in adolescent substance use: individual and relationship-specific differences in susceptibility to influence

Cited by 220 publications

References 18 publications

Do adolescent ecstasy users have different attitudes towards drugs when compared to marijuana users?

Do adolescent ecstasy users have different attitudes towards drugs when compared to marijuana users?

Sensation Seeking and Adolescent Cigarette Smoking: Examining Multiple Pathways in Cross-Sectional Data

The crown of love: intimate relations and alcohol use in adolescence

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