ABSTRACT

Background

This paper builds on the results from the study: Illicit drug use in English adolescent students – results of a cumulative mediation analyses. The study sets out to specify the most significant social learning (SL) pathways for each of the ages, regions, and gender.

Methods

Mediation analyses of a secondary dataset: Smoking Drinking Drug Use Survey 2016 (N = 12,051) on adolescents aged 11–15 years.

Results

The most important SL pathway to drug use for boys was imitation of friends and for girls it was having the “perception” that fellow peers were consuming drugs. Positive attitudes to glue was a strong SL pathway at ages 11 and 12 but not for ages 13–15 years. In the Northern parts of England positive attitudes to cannabis and in the Southern regions peer association were the strongest SL pathways to drug use.

Conclusion

The results are of relevance to policy because they confirm that drug use is a learnt behaviour and that this learnt behaviour varies for gender, region and specific ages.

中文翻译：

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英国青少年学生的非法药物使用——亚组中介分析的结果

摘要

背景

本文基于以下研究结果：英国青少年学生的非法药物使用——累积中介分析的结果。该研究旨在为每个年龄、地区和性别指定最重要的社会学习 (SL) 途径。

方法

二级数据集的中介分析：2016 年吸烟饮酒调查（N = 12,051）针对 11-15 岁的青少年。

结果

对于男孩来说，最重要的 SL 吸毒途径是模仿朋友，而对于女孩来说，它有一种“感觉”，即同龄人正在吸毒。对胶水的积极态度在 11 岁和 12 岁时是一种强烈的 SL 途径，但在 13-15 岁时则不然。在英格兰北部，对大麻的积极态度和南部地区的同伴协会是最强的 SL 吸毒途径。

结论

结果与政策相关，因为它们证实吸毒是一种习得的行为，而且这种习得的行为因性别、地区和特定年龄而异。