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Peer reviewedWelton, Gary L.; Houser, Mimsie D. – Counseling and Values, 1997
Drug experimenters and drug abstainers were compared on identity achievement at a traditional, conservative, independent college (N=155). Drug abstainers were found to be more foreclosed than experimenters; however, in contrast to previous research, abstainers were not more identity-achieved. Additional findings and results are discussed.…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, College Students, Developmental Tasks
Peer reviewedJones, Randall M.; Hartmann, Barbara R. – Journal of Adolescence, 1988
Secondary school students (N=12,988) completed Extended Objective Measure of Ego Identity Status and questionnaire assessing experience with cigarettes, inhalants, alcohol, marijuana, and cocaine. Discriminant analyses of substance use, across achievement, moratorium, foreclosure, and diffusion identity statuses, yielded significant functions for…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Age Differences, Developmental Stages
Peer reviewedSvobodny, Linda A. – Adolescence, 1982
Compared adolescents (N=32) in a chemical dependency program with a control group of high school seniors (N=60). Results indicated a higher percentage of the treatment group came from one-parent families with lower socioeconomic status. These two factors may be important precipitations of drug abuse among adolescents. (RC)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Attendance
Download full textJones, Randall M.; Hartmann, Barbara R. – 1985
The similarity of factors which mediate psychosocial maturity and those which are associated with substance use or abuse suggests a reciprocal relationship between ego identity development and behavior. Because substance use has increased in our society, has become socially acceptable in some contexts, and has an effect on the perception of…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Drinking, Drug Abuse
Jones, Randall M.; Adams, Carol Markstrom – 1988
Jones and Hartmann (1988) investigated the relation between identity status and experimental substance use among adolescents in junior and senior high schools, identifying differences in substance use across four identity statuses for adolescents in general. This study was conducted to examine the generalizability of these differences across…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, American Indians, Behavior Patterns
De Haan, Laura; Gunvalson, Diane – 1997
Early onset of at-risk behaviors has been recognized as an important predictor of severity of negative outcomes during adolescence, but little is known about rural children's involvement in such behaviors and related variables. In two rural Midwest counties with high concentrations of child poverty, a survey of 162 predominantly Caucasian fifth-…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescent Development, Delinquency, Depression (Psychology)
