Multistage path models of adolescent alcohol and drug use: a reanalysis

Ron D. Hays, Alan W. Stacy, Keith F. Widaman, M. Robin DiMatteo, Ralph Downey

ResearchPublished 1986

Simplex and nonsimplex models containing personality and perceived environmental variables as predictors of current use of alcohol, marijuana, and other drugs were compared in this reanalysis of a 1980 study by R. H. Potvin and C. Lee. Contrary to the results presented in the original study, the authors found that a nonsimplex pattern of relations among different forms of drug use allowed for a more adequate representation of the data than a simplex model for two of the three different age groups of adolescents sampled. Comformity-commitment and religiousness had consistent negative effects on drug use in each sample; parental support-affection and parental approval of friends tended to have small negative effects on drug use; and self-esteem and alienation were unrelated to drug use. In general it appears that a nonsimplex model of current drug use provides a more adequate representation of the data than does a simplex model and that religiousness and conformity-commitment are constraining influences on adolescent involvement in drug use.

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Hays, Ron D., Alan W. Stacy, Keith F. Widaman, M. Robin DiMatteo, and Ralph Downey, Multistage path models of adolescent alcohol and drug use: a reanalysis, RAND Corporation, P-7232, 1986. As of September 12, 2024: https://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P7232.html
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Hays, Ron D., Alan W. Stacy, Keith F. Widaman, M. Robin DiMatteo, and Ralph Downey, Multistage path models of adolescent alcohol and drug use: a reanalysis. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 1986. https://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P7232.html. Also available in print form.
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