Stress-Coping Factors in Adolescent Substance Use: Test of Ethnic and Gender Differences in Samples of Urban Adolescents.

Vaccaro, Donato; Wills, Thomas A.

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Publication Date: 1998

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Stress-Coping Factors in Adolescent Substance Use: Test of Ethnic and Gender Differences in Samples of Urban Adolescents.

Vaccaro, Donato; Wills, Thomas A.

Journal of Drug Education, v28 n3 p257-82 1998

Investigates group differences in the relationship between stress-coping variables and substance use with urban middle school students. African-American adolescents had the lowest rate of substance use, Hispanics were intermediate, and Whites had the highest rate. The strength of predictive relationships for stress-coping variables was lower for African Americans and greatest for Whites. (Author/MKA)

Descriptors: Adolescents, Black Students, Coping, Drinking, Hispanic Americans, Incidence, Life Events, Marijuana, Middle School Students, Middle Schools, Parents, Predictor Variables, Sex Differences, Smoking, Stress Variables, Urban Areas, White Students

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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