Social contexts of drug offers among American Indian youth and their relationship to substance use: An exploratory study.

• DOI: 10.1037/1099-9809.12.1.30
• Publication Date: 2006-04-04T13:51:52Z
• Authors: Stephen Kulis; Scott K. Okamoto; Andrea Dixon Rayle; Soma Sen
• Keywords: Situational ethics; Exploratory research

In this exploratory study the authors examined social contexts of American Indian youths' encounters with drug offers and their relationship to substance use. Using an inventory use-related problem situations developed specifically for youth, questionnaires were completed by 71 youth at public middle schools in a Southwest metropolitan area. Regression analyses highlight importance situational relational understanding use among sample. Exposure through parents, other adults, cousins, friends peers was associated different types parents particularly salient predicting female respondents. The underscores need development culturally grounded prevention programs schools, reservations, nonreservation communities.