The effects of culture on teenage drug taking: Cross-national differences between the UK, Sweden and Greece
This thesis applies multivariate analysis to three European datasets included in the 1999 ESPAD project to explore cross-national differences in drug use among British, Swedish and Greek teenagers. It focuses on the crucial interplay of individual-level and sociocultural factors on drug use. Individ...
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University of Reading
2007
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.493941 |
| Summary: | This thesis applies multivariate analysis to three European datasets included in the 1999 ESPAD project to explore cross-national differences in drug use among British, Swedish and Greek teenagers. It focuses on the crucial interplay of individual-level and sociocultural factors on drug use. Individual-level factors include the most frequently cited variables within the three main sociological theoretical approaches to the study of deviance (self-control, social -family- bonding and differential association theory). |
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