Social Factors That Influence Teen Drug Use Social Research
Social Factors That Influence Teenage Drug Use
A Research Proposal
By:
Kathleen Reynolds
Introduction
The proposed study seeks to examine the social factors that influence teen drug use. Drug use is a problem that affects many adolescents in the United States. The basic questions this study will try to answer are: What explains drug use among teenagers? What drugs are teenagers more likely to use? How are teenagers accessing drugs? And ultimately, what are the social factors that influence teen drug use?
This study involves three basic purposes of social research. These are: exploratory, descriptive, and explanatory purposes. The study will explore the body of knowledge that has been produced on the determination of drug use among adolescents. The study will describe the basic characteristics of teen drug users such as the drug of choice, the frequency of use, the sources for the drug, and the financial disposition to acquire the drugs. The study will also describe some well known factors …show more content…
A written consent was required to be filled out by the adolescents as well as their parent/or guardian before participation of this study. Recruitment for this study was by advertising as well as word of mouth. Volunteers consisted of 33 adolescents, 17 females (53%) and 16 males. Ages ranged from 8-18 years old equaling to grades 3-12. About all of the volunteers were from the middle-upper class status. The racial breakdown of this study amounts to 82% Caucasian, 9% African-American and 3% Hispanic along with Asian. Mothers of the adolescents also were involved, being interviewed about Family History (FH+ - FH-) to Epidemiologic (FHE). If the substance abuse from parents and grandparents was positive, the volunteers were considered F+; this came out to be 41% and 59% of the overall
A Research Proposal
By:
Kathleen Reynolds
Introduction
The proposed study seeks to examine the social factors that influence teen drug use. Drug use is a problem that affects many adolescents in the United States. The basic questions this study will try to answer are: What explains drug use among teenagers? What drugs are teenagers more likely to use? How are teenagers accessing drugs? And ultimately, what are the social factors that influence teen drug use?
This study involves three basic purposes of social research. These are: exploratory, descriptive, and explanatory purposes. The study will explore the body of knowledge that has been produced on the determination of drug use among adolescents. The study will describe the basic characteristics of teen drug users such as the drug of choice, the frequency of use, the sources for the drug, and the financial disposition to acquire the drugs. The study will also describe some well known factors …show more content…
A written consent was required to be filled out by the adolescents as well as their parent/or guardian before participation of this study. Recruitment for this study was by advertising as well as word of mouth. Volunteers consisted of 33 adolescents, 17 females (53%) and 16 males. Ages ranged from 8-18 years old equaling to grades 3-12. About all of the volunteers were from the middle-upper class status. The racial breakdown of this study amounts to 82% Caucasian, 9% African-American and 3% Hispanic along with Asian. Mothers of the adolescents also were involved, being interviewed about Family History (FH+ - FH-) to Epidemiologic (FHE). If the substance abuse from parents and grandparents was positive, the volunteers were considered F+; this came out to be 41% and 59% of the overall