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- A significant number of studies explore how drug use and violent behavior are linked during adolescence, suggesting they may share common risk factors.
- Social reputation and moral disengagement were analyzed as key predictors of both drug use and violent delinquency in a group of 336 adolescents.
- The findings support the idea that both social reputation and moral disengagement are important indicators of drug use and delinquency, with heavy drug use further increasing the likelihood of engaging in delinquent behavior.
Article Abstract
A large number of studies have focused on the relationship between drug use and violent delinquency in adolescence. Most of these studies underline that even if substance use and delinquency often co-occur, they may result from common causes that increase the risk for both outcomes. In particular, the delinquency-drug relationship may be mediated both by the type of drug and the incidence of other variables. In this article, social reputation and moral disengagement are studied as predictors of both drug use and violent delinquency in a 336 adolescent participants. Results confirm the hypotheses that social reputation and moral disengagement predict drug use and delinquency and that heavy drug use predicts delinquency.
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