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Adolescent Substance Use Patterns: Testing A Multidimensional Sociogenic Model, Eric O. Johnson
Adolescent Substance Use Patterns: Testing A Multidimensional Sociogenic Model, Eric O. Johnson
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This dissertation begins with the understanding that behavior is a product of a variegated and complex web of social factors. Bringing this approach to the subfield of adolescent substance use, both substance use itself (alcohol, cigarettes and a broad range of illicit drugs) and the factors that influence such use are viewed as existing within the complex of demographic/structural, social contextual, attitudinal, and behavioral layers of adolescents' social worlds.
The Patterns of Adolescent Substance Use Typology, developed by Stanley S. Robin and me (1992a), is used to categories the overall level and kind of substance use, over time, that adolescents …