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Interactive And Higher-Order Effects Of Social Influences On Drug Use, Alan W. Stacy, Michael D. Newcomb, Peter M. Bentler
Interactive And Higher-Order Effects Of Social Influences On Drug Use, Alan W. Stacy, Michael D. Newcomb, Peter M. Bentler
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The study of moderators and higher-order effects of social influences on drug use has many implications for theories of health behavior. In the present study, we investigated the longitudinal predictive effects of some of the prominent moderator variables that represent forms of susceptibility toward social influence in teenage drug use. We also studied the possibility that social influence may predict drug use in nonlinear (quadratic) forms, consistent with theories proposing that threshold or decelerating effects may occur in social influences on normatively sanctioned behaviors. Results showed that several of the interactive and quadratic predictive effects were significant. The findings supported …