Cava María Jesús, Murgui Sergio, Musitu Gonzalo
Facultad de Psicología, Universidad de Valencia, Valencia, Spain.
Psicothema. 2008 Aug;20(3):389-95.
This study focuses on possible differences in protective factors of substance use in early and middle adolescence. These possible differences are analysed by means of the same structural equation model applied to two different samples of adolescents: the first sample is made up of 450 adolescents, ages 12 to 14 years, and second of 203 adolescents, ages 15 to 17 years. The results indicate that adequate family communication is a protective factor in both samples, whereas high social self-esteem is proposed as a risk factor in middle adolescence. The adolescent's family self-esteem and attitudes towards authority are also relevant factors in both samples. These results may have important implications in the development of future intervention programmes.
本研究聚焦于青少年早期和中期物质使用保护因素的可能差异。通过将相同的结构方程模型应用于两组不同的青少年样本，对这些可能的差异进行分析：第一个样本由450名年龄在12至14岁的青少年组成，第二个样本由203名年龄在15至17岁的青少年组成。结果表明，充足的家庭沟通在两个样本中都是保护因素，而较高的社会自尊在青少年中期被视为风险因素。青少年的家庭自尊和对权威的态度在两个样本中也是相关因素。这些结果可能对未来干预项目的开展具有重要意义。
