Page Randy M, Hammermeister Jon, Roland Michelle
Department of Health Sciences, Brigham Young University, 213 Richards Building, Provo, Utah 84602, USA.
Adolescence. 2002 Fall;37(147):567-73.
The purpose of this study was to assess adolescents' estimations of the prevalence of alcohol and other drug use and to examine the consistency between these estimations and reported use. A survey was administered to 223 students in three northwestern U.S. high schools. Results showed that students in each of the three high schools grossly overestimated the prevalence of substance use when compared to self-reports of use. Still, students were not entirely clueless about the relative normativeness of substance use when comparing estimates and rates of use among the three schools. The school with the highest estimated prevalence of a particular substance use behavior generally also had the highest self-reported use of that same substance. These findings imply the need for high school personnel to provide students with accurate information about the actual prevalence of substance use within each school.
本研究的目的是评估青少年对酒精和其他药物使用流行率的估计，并检验这些估计与报告使用情况之间的一致性。对美国西北部三所高中的223名学生进行了一项调查。结果显示，与自我报告的使用情况相比，三所高中的每所学校的学生都严重高估了物质使用的流行率。不过，在比较三所学校的估计和使用比率时，学生们对物质使用的相对规范性并非完全一无所知。特定物质使用行为估计流行率最高的学校，通常自我报告的该物质使用量也最高。这些发现表明，高中工作人员有必要向学生提供关于每所学校内物质使用实际流行率的准确信息。
