Inhalant use among antisocial youth: Prevalence and correlates

被引:82
作者
Howard, MO
Jenson, JM
机构
[1] Washington Univ, George Warren Brown Sch Social Work, St Louis, MO 63130 USA
[2] Univ Iowa, Sch Social Work, Iowa City, IA 52242 USA
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10.1016/S0306-4603(98)00039-2
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B849 [应用心理学];
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040203 ;
摘要
The current (2.9%), annual (19.6%), and lifetime (34.3%) prevalence of inhalant use among 475 youth (M age = 15.5; SD = 1.5; 87.4% male) on probation in a western stale of the United States was assessed. Inhalant users reported significantly less family support and cohesiveness and lower self-esteem, and significantly more lifetime thoughts of suicide and suicide attempts, neighborhood gang activity, peer and parental substance abuse, intentions to engage in illegal behavior, substance-related criminality, and substance abuse than did nonusers. Ethnicity, self-esteem, suicidality, number of substance-using peers, and extent of substance-related criminality significantly discriminated inhalant users from nonusers in a logistic regression analysis. Multiple linear regression analyses indicated that age, perceived school ability, age at initiation of alcohol use, self-esteem. and substance-related criminality significantly predicted age at onset of inhalant use (R-2 =.30). Age at initiation of inhalant use, gang membership, truancy, and substance-related criminality significantly predicted lifetime frequency of inhalant use (R-2 =.20). Study findings indicate that inhalant-using delinquents evidence significantly greater antisocial attitudes, personal and familial dysfunction, and substance abuse, than do their non-inhalant-using counterparts. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science Ltd.
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