Peer cluster theory, socialization characteristics, and adolescent drug use: A path analysis.

Oetting, E. R.; Beauvais, Fred

doi:10.1037/0022-0167.34.2.205

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“…This hypothesis appears initially to be contradictory of the intensity hypothesis and of Peer Cluster Theory (Oetting & Beauvais, 1987), which posit that individuals are more responsive to friends with whom they share more intense bonds. In fact, the two are compatible and can be thought of as complimentary.…”

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“…However, it is increasingly clear these questions cannot be considered wholly in isolation from one another. The questions can be viewed as complimentary: if the association between friends' behaviour and ego's is causal, the association should stronger where relationships are more intense and clusters more cohesive (Oetting & Beauvais, 1987;Vásquez, 2010). One reason for this is the two-versus one scenario raised by Kobus and Henry (2010).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Effects of peer network interactions on adolescent cannabis use

Moriarty

Higgins

2015

Journal of Criminal Psychology

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Purpose: This study capitalises on three waves of longitudinal data from a cohort of 4351 secondary school pupils to examine the effects on individuals' cannabis use uptake of both peer cannabis use and position within a peer network. Methodology:Both cross-sectional and individual fixed effects models are used to estimate the effect on cannabis use of nominated friends' cannabis use, of reciprocity and transitivity of nominations across the friendship cluster, and of interactions between these nominated friends.Post hoc analyses parsed the behaviour of reciprocating and non-reciprocating friends.Findings: Cannabis use varied depending on the stability of friendship network and the degree of reciprocity and interconnectedness within the group. Behavioural influence was strong, but interaction effects were observed between the prevalence of cannabis use among friends, the structure of the friendship group and ego's proximity to group members. These interactions demonstrate that behavioural influence is more salient in more cohesive groups. When reciprocating and non-reciprocating friends' mean cannabis use were separated, influence from reciprocating friends was estimated at twice the magnitude of other friends. Originality and value:While preventing of any one individual from using cannabis is likely to have a multiplier effect on classmates, the bonds and interactions between classmates will determine which classmates are affected by this multiplier and the salience of that effect.

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Section: Confluence Of Interestsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Effects of peer network interactions on adolescent cannabis use

Moriarty

Higgins

2015

Journal of Criminal Psychology

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“…We created a religion scale by computing the mean of the two questions assessing religion, α = .83-.84, as was done in the previous studies Oetting & Beauvais, 1987).…”

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Incorporating social anxiety into a model of college problem drinking: Replication and extension.

Ham

Hope

2006

Psychology of Addictive Behaviors

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Although research has found an association between social anxiety and alcohol use in noncollege samples, results have been mixed for college samples. College students face many novel social situations in which they may drink to reduce social anxiety. In the current study, the authors tested a model of college problem drinking, incorporating social anxiety and related psychosocial variables among 228 undergraduate volunteers. According to structural equation modeling (SEM) results, social anxiety was unrelated to alcohol use and was negatively related to drinking consequences. Perceived drinking norms mediated the social anxiety-alcohol use relation and was the variable most strongly associated with problem drinking. College students appear to be unique with respect to drinking and social anxiety. Although the notion of social anxiety alone as a risk factor for problem drinking was unsupported, additional research is necessary to determine whether there is a subset of socially anxious students who have high drinking norms and are in need of intervention.Keywords college students; problem drinking; drinking norms; social anxiety; expectancies Recently, college student problem drinking has received attention as an important public health concern (Wechsler, Lee, Kuo, & Lee, 2000). Not only is problem drinking highly prevalent among college students (e.g., O'Malley & Johnston, 2002;Wechsler et al., 2000), but it also negatively impacts non-problem-drinking college students (e.g., Hingston, Heeren, Zakocs, Kopstein, & Wechsler, 2002) and the community in general (e.g., Hingston et al., 2002). Social anxiety, a common psychiatric disorder (e.g., Kessler et al., 1994) that often co-occurs with alcohol problems (e.g., Kushner, Abrams, & Borchardt, 2000), has been proposed as a factor that motivates college students to drink (e.g., Burke & Stephens, 1999). This belief seems particularly relevant to college students who face a variety of novel social situations and settings that encourage alcohol consumption.Psychosocial factors have received considerable attention as important predictors of behavior; however, researchers have noted the absence of these factors in models of college student drinking (Burke & Stephens, 1999;Martin & Hoffman, 1993). A more comprehensive model of college student drinking may include factors such as social anxiety, alcohol expectancies, valuations (i.e., the desirability of the expected alcohol effects), perceived drinking norms of peers, and religious involvement (Forthun, Bell, Peek, & Sun, 1999;Fromme, Stroot, & Kaplan, 1993;Ham & Hope, 2003;O'Hare, 1990;Reis & Riley, 2000). tested a model that included these variables in a sample of students who were referred to the Alcohol Skills Training Program (ASTP; Fromme, Marlatt, Baer, & Kivlahan, 1994) because they violated the campus alcohol policy. Unexpectedly, social anxiety was unrelated or inversely related to the drinking variables (i.e., as assessed by typical weekly drinking and alcohol-related problems), and alcohol expectancies ...

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“…These findings indicate that there is a possibility that sensation seeking and anger do not contribute to drug use directly, but rather indirectly through association with peers who are drug users. These relationships are introduced in peer cluster theory (Oetting & Beauvais, 1987) and more recent primary socialization theory , which both propose that personality traits do not exert a direct influence on adolescents' drug use, but, in nearly all cases, influence this kind of deviant behavior only indirectly, through its effect on primary socialization sources (i.e. peers, family, and school).…”

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Relationship Between Personality and Adolescent Drug Use: Effects of Substance Abusing Peers and Gender

Šakić

Vrselja

Wertag

2013

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The goal of this paper was to explore whether sensation seeking and anger exert a direct and/or an indirect effect on adolescent lifetime cannabis and inhalant use through substance abusing peers. In addition, the purpose was to explore whether direct effects of these two personality factors are dependent on gender. Analyzed data were collected in 2012 from 394 students (186 boys, 193 girls, while 15 students didn't indicate their gender), aged between 15 and 17 years. In the case of lifetime cannabis use, mediation analyses showed the significance of the indirect effect of sensation seeking on this drug type use through substance abusing peers. Likewise, it was shown that sensation seeking and anger both exert direct effect on this drug type, but independently of gender. In the case of lifetime inhalant use, two personality factors do not exert indirect nor direct effect on this drug type use. In addition, these direct effects are not dependent on gender. Data presented in this paper elucidate risk pathways to cannabis and inhalant use, considering some possible differences between these risk pathways.

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Peer cluster theory, socialization characteristics, and adolescent drug use: A path analysis.

Cited by 311 publications

References 40 publications

Effects of peer network interactions on adolescent cannabis use

Effects of peer network interactions on adolescent cannabis use

Incorporating social anxiety into a model of college problem drinking: Replication and extension.

Relationship Between Personality and Adolescent Drug Use: Effects of Substance Abusing Peers and Gender

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