Attitudes, perceptions and available money explaining drug consumption in adolescents / El papel de las actitudes, las percepciones y el dinero disponible en el consumo de drogas en adolescentes
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Actitudes hacia las drogas, adolescentes, consumo de drogas, dinero disponible, orientación hacia la salud. / Keywords, Attitudes towards drugs, adolescents, drug consumption, available money, health orientation.Abstract
La evolución experimentada en los patrones de consumo de drogas entre los adolescentes, fuertemente vinculados a los hábitos de ocio, justifica el nivel de alarma social actual. En los últimos años, se han estudiado en profundidad diferentes factores de riesgo y protección y se han propuesto diversos modelos teóricos explicativos del consumo de drogas. El presente trabajo pretende explorar algunos de ellos desde la percepción de los propios adolescentes, así como estudiar la influencia del dinero disponible por los mismos. La realización de entrevistas a 477 adolescentes gallegos de entre 14 y 18 años y el uso del análisis de Ecuaciones Estructurales permiten presentar un modelo explicativo sencillo del consumo de drogas entre los jóvenes. Los resultados obtenidos sirven para poner de manifiesto la relevancia de variables como la orientación hacia la salud o las actitudes hacia las drogas sobre el consumo de drogas y exponer el papel que juega el dinero disponible, además de permitir una mejor comprensión de la relación entre estas variables.
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The development of patterns of drug consumption among adolescents, strongly rooted in leisure habits, justifies current level of public alarm. In recent years, different risk and protection factors have been studied, and several theoretical models of drug consumption have been proposed. The aim of this paper is to explore some of them from adolescent’s perception as well as the influence of available money by the adolescents. Conducting interviews with 477 adolescents in Galicia among 14 and 18 years old and using structural equation analysis allows to present a simple explanation model of drug consumption among adolescents. The results serve to demonstrate the relevance of variables such as health orientation, attitudes towards drugs and to expose the role of available money, besides allowing a better understanding of the relationship between these variables.
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