The Effect of Earlier or Later Transition Into Middle School on Students' Psychosocial Adjustment and Drug Use.

Ried, L. Douglas; And Others

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ERIC Number: EJ345003

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Publication Date: 1986

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The Effect of Earlier or Later Transition Into Middle School on Students' Psychosocial Adjustment and Drug Use.

Ried, L. Douglas; And Others

Journal of Drug Education, v16 n3 p221-32 1986

Compared the psychosocial adjustment and drug use of eighth-grade students beginning middle school in the fifth, sixth, or seventh grade. Students beginning middle school in the fifth and sixth grade had more favorable drug use attitudes, had more drug-using friends, and felt their friends were less opposed to using drugs. (Author/ABB)

Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Drug Use, Elementary Education, Grade 8, Middle Schools, Social Adjustment, Student Adjustment

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Language: English

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