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American Indian Adolescent Drug Use and Socialization Characteristics

A Cross-Cultural Comparison

Randall C. Swaim

Colorado State University

Eugene R. Oetfing

Colorado State University

Pamela Jumper Thurman

Colorado State University

Fred Beauvais

Colorado State University

Ruth W. Edwards

Colorado State University

The socialization variables of family strength, religious identification, school adjustment, family sanctions against drug use and peer associations correlate with youth drug abuse. A path model testing the relationships between these variables among Anglo youths has shown that peer drug associations mediate the influence of the other factors and that with minor exceptions peers are likely to be the dominating force in youth drug abuse. The current study applied the same path model to a group of American Indian youths and the findings were replicated with two important exceptions. Peer drug associations, although still dominant in the model, were not as highly correlated with drug use for Indian youths, and family sanctions against drugs had a direct influence on drug use in addition to an indirect influence. Differences in family dynamics among American Indian youths may account for the findings; they may associate more with and learn about drug use from same-aged siblings and other relatives in the extended family, and they may have a greater number of adult family figures to apply sanctions against drug use.

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, Vol. 24, No. 1, 53-70 (1993)
DOI: 10.1177/0022022193241004
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