Swaim R C, Oetting E R, Edwards R W, Beauvais F
J Consult Clin Psychol. 1989 Apr;57(2):227-31. doi: 10.1037//0022-006x.57.2.227.
Administered anonymous surveys asking about drug use, emotional distress, and peer drug associations to 11th and 12th grade high school students (N = 563). Emotional distress variables accounted for only 4.8% of the variance in drug use. The addition of peer drug associations as a predictor variable increased the variance accounted for to 43.4%. A path model of adolescent drug use based on peer cluster theory was tested using LISREL, and this provided a good fit with the data. As predicted, peer drug associations dominated the prediction of drug use and mediated the effect of emotional distress on drug use, with the exception of a small residual path directly from anger to drug use. The hypothesis that young people take drugs to alleviate emotional distress does not hold up well; emotional distress variables, with the exception of anger, produced only very small and indirect links to drug use.
对11年级和12年级的高中生（N = 563）进行了匿名调查，询问他们的药物使用情况、情绪困扰以及同伴的药物关联情况。情绪困扰变量仅占药物使用方差的4.8%。将同伴药物关联作为预测变量加入后，方差解释率提高到了43.4%。使用LISREL对基于同伴群体理论的青少年药物使用路径模型进行了检验，该模型与数据拟合良好。正如预测的那样，同伴药物关联在药物使用预测中占主导地位，并介导了情绪困扰对药物使用的影响，只有一条从愤怒直接到药物使用的小残差路径除外。年轻人通过吸毒来缓解情绪困扰这一假设并不成立；除愤怒外，情绪困扰变量与药物使用之间只有非常小的间接联系。
