Citation

Wolf Y, Olenick-Shemesh D, Addad M, Green D, Walters J. Adolescence 1995; 30(120): 909-930.

Affiliation

Department of Criminology, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1995, Libra Publishers)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

8588526

Abstract

Sixteen 17-year-old kibbutz members, seven of them smokers, and nine nonsmokers of hashish, assessed the probability that a young person of similar background would use drugs. Two sources of information were manipulated bifactorially: personal predisposition (curiosity, risk-taking, and existential meaning) and the level of group pressure to smoke hashish. It was found that hashish smokers assigned meaningful importance to a combined influence of the two factors, while the nonsmokers considered only group pressure to be important. A tool based on the measurement method examined in this study is proposed for predicting the probability of drug use among adolescents.

Language: en