Assessing Community Effects on Adolescent Substance Use and Delinquency

Autor/inn/en	Van Horn, M. Lee; Hawkins, J. David; Arthur, Michael W.; Catalano, Richard F.
Titel	Assessing Community Effects on Adolescent Substance Use and Delinquency
Quelle	In: Journal of Community Psychology, 35 (2007) 8, S.925-946 (22 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0090-4392
DOI	10.1002/jcop.20204
Schlagwörter	Community Leaders; Delinquency; Prevention; Predictive Validity; Drug Abuse; Risk; Law Enforcement; Adolescents; Substance Abuse; Psychometrics; Student Attitudes; Racial Differences; Test Validity; Social Attitudes; Social Behavior; Surveys; Marijuana; Drinking + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Community leadership; Gemeindeleitung; Kriminalität; Prävention; Vorbeugung; Risiko; Gesetzesvollzug; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Drug use; Drug consomption; Drogenkonsum; Psychometry; Psychometrie; Schülerverhalten; Rassenunterschied; Testvalidität; Social attidude; Soziale Einstellung; Social behaviour; Soziales Verhalten; Survey; Umfrage; Befragung; Trinken
Abstract	This study investigates community-level prediction of adolescent substance use and problem behaviors using ratings by community leaders to assess the effects of four risk factors on levels of drug use and problem behaviors. Three questions are examined: (a) Can psychometrically sound measures of community leader perceptions of risk factors in their community be developed?; (b) What is the relationship between community leader ratings of the community and student perceptions of their community?; and (c) How are community leader ratings and student perceptions of the community related to community levels of current student substance use and serious delinquency? Results indicate that community leaders' perceptions of community risk factors demonstrate both internal validity and criterion validity. Community leaders and students demonstrate modest agreement in assessments of community risk factors. Community leaders' ratings of community norms favorable to substance use and community law enforcement permissive of substance use were related to levels of substance use reported by students. Leader ratings of low community attachment, community disorganization, and community law enforcement permissive of substance use were related to community levels of serious delinquency reported by students. (Contains 5 tables and 3 figures.) (As Provided).
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