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KMID : 0904520060190010051
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Health and Medical Sociology
2006 Volume.19 No. 1 p.51 ~ p.69
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Significant Others and Adolescent Substance Abuse: Focusing on Parental and Peer Influences
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Hwang Sung-Hyun
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Abstract
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The main purpose of this study is to explore the direct, indirect, and relative influences of peers and parents on substance use by Korean adolescents. The analysis and findings reported here are from a self-report questionnaire survey of a sample of 1,035 high school students in Pusan, a metropolitan area of South Korea. Multiple regression and path analyses reveal that for all types of drug behavior among these adolescents the influence of parental variables was generally less than the influence of the peer variables. That is, regardless of drug use behavior, generally reported stronger influence from peers than parents. This result is also more congruent with social learning theory than with social bond theory. Even in South Korean society, where the stability and authority of the family is greater than in American society, peers have a greater influence than do parents on adolescents’ engaging in or refraining from deviant behavior. The findings conform more to the expectations of social learning theory than to those of social bonding theory and generally replicate findings from research on adolescent drug use in the United States.
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KEYWORD
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Adolescent Drug Use(Abuse), Social Learning Theory, Social, Bonding Theory, Path Analysis
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