scholarly journals Swedish high-school pupils’ attitudes towards drugs in relation to drug usage, impulsiveness and other risk factors

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fariba Mousavi ◽  
Danilo Garcia ◽  
Trevor Archer ◽  
Béatrice Ewalds-Kvist
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
High School ◽  
Gender Differences ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Drug Use ◽  
Odds Ratio ◽  
Drug Users ◽  
School Students ◽  
Drug Usage ◽  
Positive Attitudes

Background: Illicit drug use influences people’s lives and elicits unwanted behaviour. Current research shows that there is an increase in young people’s drug use in Sweden. Therefore, this study aimed at investigating high-school students’ attitudes, impulsiveness and gender differences linked to drug use. Also risk and protective factors relative to drug use were in focus of interest. Method: High school pupils (n = 146), aged 17- 21 years, responded to the Adolescent Health and Development Inventory, Barratt Impulsiveness Scale (BIS-11) and Knowledge, and the Attitudes and Beliefs (KAB). Direct logistic, multiple regression analyses, and Multivariate Analysis of Variance were used to analyse the data. Results: Positive Attitudes towards drugs was predicted by risk factors, odds ratio = 37.31. Risk factors, odds ratio = 46.89, and positive attitudes towards drugs, odds ratio = 4.63, predicted drug usage. Family, friends and individual as risk factors was positively related to impulsiveness among drug users. Moreover, although males reported using drugs to a greater extent, but female expressed more positive attitude towards drugs and even reported more impulsiveness than male students. Conclusion: Positive attitudes towards drugs among adolescents seem to be part of a vicious circle including risk factors, such as friendly drug environments (e.g., friends who use drugs) and unsupportive family environments, and impulsiveness. Even pro-drug attitudes were interpreted as a sign of a social change defined as altered norms, values and symbols of the society. This study reinforces the idea that research must focus on gender differences relative to pro-drug attitudes along with testing for differences in the predictors of girls’ and boys’ delinquency and impulsiveness.

scholarly journals Swedish high-school pupils’ attitudes towards drugs in relation to drug usage, impulsiveness and other risk factors

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fariba Mousavi ◽  
Danilo Garcia ◽  
Alexander Jimmefors ◽  
Trevor Archer ◽  
Béatrice M Ewalds-Kvist
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
High School ◽  
Gender Differences ◽  
Drug Use ◽  
Odds Ratio ◽  
Drug Users ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Drug Usage ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
And Gender

Background: Illicit drug use influences people’s lives and elicits unwanted here is an increase in young people’s drug use in Sweden. This study aimed to investigate Swedish high-school pupils’ attitudes, impulsiveness and gender differences linked to drug use. Also risk and protective factors relative to drug use were a focus of interest. Method: High school pupils (n = 146) aged 17- 21 years, responded to the Adolescent Health and Development Inventory, Barratt Impulsiveness Scale and Knowledge, and the Attitudes and Beliefs. Direct logistic, multiple regression analyses, and Multivariate Analysis of Variance were used to analyse the data. Results: Positive Attitudes towards drugs was predicted by risk factors (odds ratio = 37.31) and gender (odds ratio = .32). Risk factors (odds ratio = 46.89), positive attitudes towards drugs (odds ratio = 4.63), and impulsiveness (odds ratio = 1.11) predicted drug usage. Risk factors dimensions Family, Friends and Individual Characteristic were positively related to impulsiveness among drug users. Moreover, although males reported using drugs to a greater extent, but female expressed more positive attitude towards drugs and even reported more impulsiveness than male students. Conclusion: This study reinforces the idea that research must focus on gender differences relative to pro-drug attitudes along with testing for differences in the predictors of girls’ and boys’ delinquency and impulsiveness. Positive attitudes towards drugs among adolescents seem to be part of a vicious circle including risk factors, such as friendly drug environments (e.g., friends who use drugs) and unsupportive family environments, individual characteristics, and impulsiveness.

scholarly journals Swedish high-school pupils’ attitudes towards drugs in relation to drug usage, impulsiveness and other risk factors

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fariba Mousavi ◽  
Danilo Garcia ◽  
Alexander Jimmefors ◽  
Trevor Archer ◽  
Béatrice M Ewalds-Kvist
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
High School ◽  
Gender Differences ◽  
Drug Use ◽  
Odds Ratio ◽  
Drug Users ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Drug Usage ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
And Gender

Background: Illicit drug use influences people’s lives and elicits unwanted here is an increase in young people’s drug use in Sweden. This study aimed to investigate Swedish high-school pupils’ attitudes, impulsiveness and gender differences linked to drug use. Also risk and protective factors relative to drug use were a focus of interest. Method: High school pupils (n = 146) aged 17- 21 years, responded to the Adolescent Health and Development Inventory, Barratt Impulsiveness Scale and Knowledge, and the Attitudes and Beliefs. Direct logistic, multiple regression analyses, and Multivariate Analysis of Variance were used to analyse the data. Results: Positive Attitudes towards drugs was predicted by risk factors (odds ratio = 37.31) and gender (odds ratio = .32). Risk factors (odds ratio = 46.89), positive attitudes towards drugs (odds ratio = 4.63), and impulsiveness (odds ratio = 1.11) predicted drug usage. Risk factors dimensions Family, Friends and Individual Characteristic were positively related to impulsiveness among drug users. Moreover, although males reported using drugs to a greater extent, but female expressed more positive attitude towards drugs and even reported more impulsiveness than male students. Conclusion: This study reinforces the idea that research must focus on gender differences relative to pro-drug attitudes along with testing for differences in the predictors of girls’ and boys’ delinquency and impulsiveness. Positive attitudes towards drugs among adolescents seem to be part of a vicious circle including risk factors, such as friendly drug environments (e.g., friends who use drugs) and unsupportive family environments, individual characteristics, and impulsiveness.

Patterns and Correlates of Drug Use among Urban High School Students

1973 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jack McKillip ◽  
James E. Johnson ◽  
Thomas P. Petzel
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Drug Use ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Drug Users ◽  
Urban High School ◽  
School Students ◽  
Significant Relationships ◽  
Parental Drug Use ◽  
Peer Drug Use

A drug-use survey was administered in a large metropolitan, middle class high school to test two hypotheses: a. drug users can be divided according to the types of drugs used (tobacco, alcohol, and marijuana vs. opiates, LSD, amphetamines, etc.); and, b. respondents' drug use is significantly related to their peers drug use. Both hypotheses were supported. Reports of personal drug use were factor analyzed dividing drug use into two categories. Intercorrelations of students' own drug use with reported parental, sibling, and peer drug use all revealed significant relationships. Peer drug use correlated the highest, followed by sibling and parental drug use. A number of implications of these results for the organization of high school drug programs and for counseling drug users were discussed.

The Knowledge about Drugs, Attitudes towards Them and Drug Use Rates of High School Students

1973 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 377-388 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dianne Fejer ◽  
Reginald G. Smart
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Drug Use ◽  
Grade Level ◽  
Drug Users ◽  
Illicit Drugs ◽  
School Students ◽  
Academic Standing ◽  
High Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge And Attitude

A survey of attitudes towards drugs, knowledge about them and the use of alcohol, tobacco, illicit and psychoactive drugs was conducted among 4,693 high school students in Metropolitan Toronto. Males knew slightly more about drugs than females and had more permissive attitudes towards them. Knowledge level and permissive attitudes tended to increase with grade level. Knowledge scores also increased, but attitudes became less permissive with increasing academic standing. However, differences between drug users and nonusers in knowledge and attitude were larger than differences related to social and demographic characteristics. Users, especially of illicit drugs, had higher knowledge scores and more permissive attitudes than nonusers. Knowledge and attitude scores were closely related. Students with high knowledge scores had more permissive attitudes than those with low knowledge scores. Questions were raised concerning the value of providing factual information as a method of deterring drug use.

Adolescent Drug Use and the Alienation Syndrome

1972 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 249-261 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joan H. Rollins ◽  
Raymond H. Holden
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Drug Use ◽  
New England ◽  
Eighth Graders ◽  
Senior High School ◽  
School Students ◽  
Drug Usage ◽  
Adolescent Drug Use ◽  
Senior High School Students

A drug survey of junior and senior high school students in a large New England city found higher drug usage among males, blacks, eighth graders, children from broken homes, and children who do not plan to complete high school. It is suggested that these adolescents are enmeshed in an “alienation syndrome” and need a variety of services for prevention and rehabilitation.

Smoking Risk Factors and Gender Differences among Spanish High School Students

2010 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olaya García-Rodríguez ◽  
Rosa Suárez-Vázquez ◽  
Roberto Secades-Villa ◽  
José R. Fernández-Hermida
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
High School ◽  
Gender Differences ◽  
High School Students ◽  
School Students ◽  
And Gender

The Supposed Drug Information and Attitude Gap between Teachers and Students

1974 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-116
Author(s):  
Dianne Fejer ◽  
Reginald G. Smart
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Drug Use ◽  
High School Teachers ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Generation Gap ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
School Students ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
Teachers And Students

A survey of knowledge, attitudes towards drugs and towards other social issues was conducted among 362 elementary and high school teachers in an Ontario School Board District. Teachers scores on these scales were compared to those of high school students. Most elementary and high school teachers did not hold strong negative or positive attitudes towards legalization of marihuana. High school teachers did appear more in favour of legalization than elementary school teachers or students. High school students were more permissive towards drug use in general than both teacher groups. High school teachers knew the most about drugs. Scores on these scales were interrelated such that teachers favouring legalization of marihuana knew most about drugs and were more permissive towards other social issues such as abortion, homosexuality and the penal system. The authors conclude that in the past too much may have been made of a generation gap concerning drug use between high school teachers and students.

Gender Differences and Similarities in Patterns of Drug Use and Attitudes of High School Students

1993 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pietro J. Pascale ◽  
William J. Evans
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Gender Differences ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Drug Use ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Baseline Data ◽  
Self Report ◽  
School Students ◽  
Report Data ◽  
Self Report Data

The purpose of this research was to study the results of a large scale drug survey of high school students in the context of the baseline data provided by four previous surveys. These surveys were conducted at three-year intervals beginning in 1977. The most recent survey contained self report data from 2,000 students representing fifteen schools in northeast Ohio. The instrument yields information on fourteen categories of drugs. Gender differences in drug use, perceived harmfulness of drugs, and age of first experimentation are reported. No gender differences were found in the reasons students give for turning to drugs. Baseline data from the four previous surveys comprised approximately 8,000 respondents.

Physical and relational aggression as predictors of drug use: Gender differences among high school students

2008 ◽  
Vol 33 (12) ◽  
pp. 1507-1515 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silvana Skara ◽  
Pallav Pokhrel ◽  
Michelle D. Weiner ◽  
Ping Sun ◽  
Clyde W. Dent ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Gender Differences ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Drug Use ◽  
Relational Aggression ◽  
School Students
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