Valuing but Not Liking School: Revisiting the Relationship between School Attitudes and Substance Use among Urban Youth

Autor/inn/en	Conner, Jerusha O.; Mason, Michael; Mennis, Jeremy
Titel	Valuing but Not Liking School: Revisiting the Relationship between School Attitudes and Substance Use among Urban Youth
Quelle	In: Education and Urban Society, 44 (2012) 6, S.672-687 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0013-1245
DOI	10.1177/0013124511406915
Schlagwörter	Urban Youth; Adolescents; School Attitudes; Substance Abuse; Posttraumatic Stress Disorder; Satisfaction; Teacher Student Relationship; Parent Child Relationship; Behavior Assessment System for Children + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Urban area; Urban areas; Youth; Stadtregion; Stadt; Jugend; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Drug use; Drug consomption; Drogenkonsum; Zufriedenheit; Teacher student relationships; Lehrer-Schüler-Beziehung; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung
Abstract	Research has found strong linkages between adolescent substance use and attitudes toward school. Few studies of this relationship, however, consider the different dimensions of students' school attitudes, separating perceptions of the importance of school from the quality of students' affective experiences therein. Using a sample of 301 urban adolescents, evenly divided into substance users and nonusers, this study examines the relationships between these two dimensions of school attitudes and substance use. Findings highlight a subset of adolescent substance users who see school as the most important place in which they routinely spend time and who differ significantly from other users, but not from nonusers, in their expressed satisfaction with school. Results also call attention to the ubiquity of urban adolescents' dissatisfaction with their teachers, showing such dissatisfaction as unrelated to their rates of substance use. Implications for school reform, dropout prevention programs, and future research are discussed. (Contains 5 tables.) (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10