The Relationship of Alcohol, Tobacco, Marijuana, and Other Illegal Drug Use to Delinquency Among Mexican - American, Black, and White Adolescent Males  

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Watts, W. David ; Wright, Loyd S.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Adolescence vol. 25 no. 97 (1990), page 171-182.
Topik: relationships; relationship; illegal drug; adolescent males

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This study examined the relationship between drug use and delinquent behaviour among 348 high school males (154 whites, 172 mexican - americans, and 22 blacks) and 89 adjudicated delinquent males confined to a maximum - security facility for violent and repeat offenders (37 whites, 25 mexican - americans, and 27 blacks). Data were collected in the spring of 1986 using self - administered questionnaires. Analyses were performed separately for each racial subgroup. Simple correlations revealed that self - reported alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, and other illegal drug use were all significantly related to both minor and violent delinquency for all three racial groups. Multiple regression analysis revealed that the use of these substances accounted for 40% to 47% of the variance in minor delinquency and for 59% of the variance in violent delinquency among blacks, 53% of the variance in violence delinquency among mexican - americans, and 34% of the variance in violent delinquency among whites. The best predictors of violent delinquency were the frequent use of illegal drugs other than marijuana and use of tobacco, in that order, among mexican - americans, the frequent use of other illegal drugs, marijuana, and tobacco, in that order, for whites, and the frequent use of illegal drugs, followed by marijuana, for blacks.

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