Compulsive Adolescent Substance Abusers

Article: Weidman, A. (1983). The compulsive substance abuser: Psychological differentiation and family process. Journal of Drug Education, 13(2), 161-171.

This research examined for relationships between psychological differentiation (psychoemotional independence from significant others) and locus of control (attribution of one's live circumstances to either internal qualities or to external agents such as fate, chance, or significant others) in a sample of compulsive adolescent substance abusers. Compulsive substance abuse was defined as those whose substance abuse (alcohol and other drugs) was characterized by significant impairment in psychosocial functioning.

Subjects consisted of 14 male residents (20 years of age or younger) of a therapeutic community and 27 of their parents. All adolescents had been court ordered to reside in the therapeutic community.

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