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Peer ecology of male adolescent drug use

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 March 2009

Thomas J. Dishion ,
Deborah Capaldi ,
Kathleen M. Spracklen  and
Fuzhong Li
Thomas J. Dishion*
Affiliation:
Oregon Social Learning Center
Deborah Capaldi
Affiliation:
Oregon Social Learning Center
Kathleen M. Spracklen
Affiliation:
Oregon Social Learning Center
Fuzhong Li
Affiliation:
Oregon Social Learning Center
*
Thomas J. Dishion Oregon Social Learning Center, 207 East 5th Avenue, Suite 202, Eugene, OR 97401.
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Abstract

This report represents the perspective that adolescent substance use is best understood as an adaptation to an ecology defined jointly by families and peers. Hypotheses were tested on a sample of 206 boys in the Oregon Youth Study. The analyses proceeded in four steps. First, it was found that the transition from middle to high school was a period of rapid growth in smoking for boys with a prior history of low sociometric status. Second, a structural equation model was tested showing that deviant peer association in early adolescence mediated the relation between peer and family experiences in middle childhood and later substance use. Third, an observational study of the boys with their best friends revealed that active support for rule breaking and substance use was associated with immediate escalation in substance use during the transition to high school. Finally, it was found that ineffective parental monitoring practices were highly associated with the boy's involvement in a deviant peer network. In fact, a high degree of similarity was found between boys and their best friends for substance use when parental monitoring was low. These analyses show that substance use in adolescence is embedded within the proximal peer environment, which in turn, emerges and is amplified within a context of low adult involvement and monitoring.

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Development and Psychopathology , Volume 7 , Issue 4: Developmental Processes in Peer Relations and Psychopathology , Fall 1995 , pp. 803 - 824
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