ADOLESCENT MARIJUANA AND ALCOHOL USE |
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| Authors: | SUSAN M JAQUITH |
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| Institution: | Susan M. Jaquirh is a doctoral candidare i n the Deparrnient of Sociology at Florida State Universiry. Her research interesis include macro-social structure and personaliry. deviance. and quantitative methodology. Currently she is working on her disserration which examines the social psychologiced conse quences of capitalist development inan African society using Weherian and neo-marxist conceptualizations of social class. Other studies in progress, focus on fhe initiation, continuation. and cessation processe of drug and alcohol use;measurment issues in the cross-cultural social study of psycological phenomena: and the the literacy on individuals in developing nations. |
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| Abstract: | Most tests of differential association theory focus on the basic relationships rather than the causal process specified by the theory. This study provides a more thorough test of Sutherland's differential association hypothesis by deriving and testing a causal model of alcohol and marijuana use among adolescents. The findings provide strong support for the causal process specified by differential association theory. However, two unexpected findings suggest that the theory may have to be modified to account for the differential impact of peer pressure, independent of internalized definitions, on individual behavior and for the differential impact of specific primary groups on the formation of individual definitions. |
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