Transactions Between Substance Use Intervention, the Oxytocin Receptor (OXTR) Gene, and Peer Substance Use Predicting Youth Alcohol Use

Impulsivity, peer influence, and adolescent substance use

Is it the music? Peer substance use as a mediator of the link between music preferences and adolescent substance use.

Both music preferences and the substance use behavior of peers are important elements in explaining adolescent substance use. The extent to which music preference and peer use overlap in explaining adolescent substance use remains to be determined. A nationally representative sample of 7324 Dutch school-going adolescents (aged 12-16) provided data on music preferences, substance use behaviors a...

Peer and sibling substance use: predictors of substance use among adolescents in Mexico.

OBJECTIVE To examine the extent to which peer drug use and sibling drug use predict alcohol abuse/dependence disorder status and the use of drugs other than alcohol among school-based youth in Mexico. METHODS Data were collected on 1 203 middle and high school students in northern Mexico in May 1998. Participation was voluntary, and responses were confidential. Logistic regression analyses es...

the relationship between l2 learning strategy use and motivation among iranian efl learners

راهکاهای یادگیری که تحت عنوان "اعمال و رفتارهایی که توسط زبان آموزان بکار برده می شود جهت یادگیری موفق تر، هدفمندتر و جذاب تر زبان" (آکسفورد، 1989) تعریف شده است، نقش قابل توجهی در یادگیری زبان خارجی ایفا می کند. در مطالعات اخیر تأثیر عوامل مختلفی مانند سن، جنسیت، سطح بسندگی، فرهنگ، انگیزه، نوع نگرش، ویژگی های شخصیتی و... در استفاده و انتخاب راهکارهای یادگیری زبان بررسی شده است. در میان عوامل ب...

The Effectiveness of Family-Based Treatment on Attitude towards Substance Use in Female Students with Substance Use Disorder

Objective: Substance abuse and addiction are serious problems in todaychr('39')s world, and high tendency to use substances in adolescents has attracted the attention of researchers and therapists. The aim of present study was to evaluate the effectiveness of family-based treatment on attitude towards substance use in female students with substance use disorder. Method: In this study, a multipl...