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Thesis
MOTHERS OR FRIENDS? INFLUENCES ON DAUGHTERS' SUBSTANCE USE
University of West Florida
Master of Arts (MA), University of West Florida
2011
Abstract
Seventy female university students between the ages of 18 and 25 who lived with their biological mother during the majority of their adolescence participated in an online survey pertaining to maternal and peer influences on participants' substance use during adolescence and early adulthood. Correlational relationships were proposed between perceived maternal parenting style, perceived maternal substance use, perceived peer substance use, participants' past substance use and participants' current substance use levels. It was also hypothesized that maternal influences would be stronger predictors for participants' past and current substance use than would be peer influences. Maternal influences were not found to share a statistically significant relationship with participants' past or current levels of substance use. Peer influences were strongly associated with participants' levels of substance use during adolescence and early adulthood, and were found to be stronger predictors of participants' current substance use than were maternal influences.
Details
- Title
- MOTHERS OR FRIENDS? INFLUENCES ON DAUGHTERS' SUBSTANCE USE
- Resource Type
- Thesis
- Publisher
- University of West Florida
- Format
- text
- Identifiers
- 99380090868706600
- Academic Unit
- Psychology
- Language
- English
- Awarding Institution
- University of West Florida; Master of Arts (MA)
- Theses and Dissertations
- Master of Arts (MA), University of West Florida