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Peer reviewedJames, William H.; And Others – Journal of Child and Adolescent Substance Abuse, 1996
Assessed drug use and defensiveness among 28 adolescents, grades 9-12, using a six-month tracking study of alternative school adolescents. Defensiveness correlated with school credit deficiency and a high rate of legal trouble and discipline problems in defensive males. Suggests that denial and defensiveness are risk factors for drug use and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, At Risk Persons, Behavior, Defense Mechanisms
