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ERIC Number: EJ638444
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2001
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ISSN: ISSN-0047-2891
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Predicting Use and Maintenance of Use of Substances in Scottish Adolescents.
Karatzias, A.; Power, K. G.; Swanson, V.
Journal of Youth and Adolescence, v30 n4 p465-84 Aug 2001
Studied the roles of demographic, school, nonschool, and personality factors in predicting the use of tobacco, alcohol, and illicit drugs and maintenance of this use. Findings for 425 Scottish secondary school students show different predictive factors. Discusses implications of the findings for decreasing the prevalence of substance use. (SLD)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Patterns, Demography, Drinking, Foreign Countries, Institutional Characteristics, Personality Traits, Prediction, Secondary Education, Secondary School Students, Smoking, Substance Abuse
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom (Scotland)
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