The Effect of Negative Emotion on Licit and Illicit Drug Use among High School Dropouts: An Empirical Test of General Strain Theory

Autor/in	Drapela, Laurie A.
Titel	The Effect of Negative Emotion on Licit and Illicit Drug Use among High School Dropouts: An Empirical Test of General Strain Theory
Quelle	In: Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 35 (2006) 5, S.752-767 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0047-2891
DOI	10.1007/s10964-006-9059-0
Schlagwörter	Etiology; Dropouts; Depression (Psychology); Drug Use; Emotional Response; Negative Attitudes; Environmental Influences; Stimuli; Drug Abuse; Psychological Patterns; Gender Differences; Parent Attitudes; Predictor Variables; Stress Variables; High School Students + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ätiologie; Drop-out; Drop-outs; Dropout; Early leavers; Schulversagen; Drug consumption; Substance abuse; Drogenkonsum; Emotionales Verhalten; Negative Fixierung; Environmental influence; Umwelteinfluss; Anreizsystem; Geschlechterkonflikt; Elternverhalten; Prädiktor; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin
Abstract	General Strain Theory (GST) argues that drug use is one way adolescents mitigate negative emotions brought on by aversive environmental stimuli. To date, many of the empirical tests of the strain-drug use relationship have neglected to include measures of negative emotion, despite its prominence in GST's etiology of deviant behavior. The following study tests the mediating effects of despair on the strain-drug use relationship, evaluating the effects of parental reactions to leaving school on post-dropout drug use. The moderating effects of recency of dropout and gender of respondent are also considered. Results show that negative parental reactions to dropout affect drug use for females only, and that despair does not mediate this relationship. This type of negative affect has direct effects on drug use for both genders, rather than the indirect effects predicted by GST. These findings affirm prior research linking depressive negative affective states to drug use, but suggests that the relationship between strain and such emotional states is more complex than the theory suggests, particularly when the moderating effects of gender are considered. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10