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Social and school factors in predicting cannabis use among Ontario high school students. 1990

K R Allison, and C Dignam

Prevention Studies Department, Addiction Research Foundation, Toronto, Ontario.

This paper explores the influence of social factors and school factors on cannabis use among Ontario high school students. The data are derived from a survey of students conducted by the Addiction Research Foundation in 1987. Multiple classification analysis was used to examine the relationship between the two groups of factors and cannabis use. Results of the analysis indicate that social factors are more highly predictive of cannabis use than are school factors. A theoretical framework specifying the influence of social and school factors on cannabis use needs to be developed and tested in order to understand this relationship more clearly.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D008297	Male		Males
D009864	Ontario	A province of Canada lying between the provinces of Manitoba and Quebec. Its capital is Toronto. It takes its name from Lake Ontario which is said to represent the Iroquois oniatariio, beautiful lake. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p892 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p391)
D011336	Probability	The study of chance processes or the relative frequency characterizing a chance process.	Probabilities
D002189	Marijuana Abuse	Use of marijuana associated with abnormal psychological, social, and or occupational functioning.	Cannabis Abuse,Cannabis Dependence,Cannabis-Related Disorder,Hashish Abuse,Marijuana Dependence,Marihuana Abuse,Abuse, Cannabis,Abuse, Hashish,Abuse, Marihuana,Abuse, Marijuana,Cannabis Related Disorder,Dependence, Cannabis,Dependence, Marijuana,Disorder, Cannabis-Related
D005260	Female		Females
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000293	Adolescent	A person 13 to 18 years of age.	Adolescence,Youth,Adolescents,Adolescents, Female,Adolescents, Male,Teenagers,Teens,Adolescent, Female,Adolescent, Male,Female Adolescent,Female Adolescents,Male Adolescent,Male Adolescents,Teen,Teenager,Youths
D012924	Social Conditions	The state of society as it exists or in flux. While it usually refers to society as a whole in a specified geographical or political region, it is applicable also to restricted strata of a society.	Living Conditions,Condition, Living,Condition, Social,Conditions, Living,Conditions, Social,Living Condition,Social Condition
D012931	Social Environment	The aggregate of social and cultural institutions, forms, patterns, and processes that influence the life of an individual or community.	Social Context,Environment, Social,Social Ecology,Context, Social,Contexts, Social,Ecologies, Social,Ecology, Social,Environments, Social,Social Contexts,Social Ecologies,Social Environments