Pressure Inventory. Patterson and Dishion's measure of parental monitoring was employed to measure this variable. Wheeler and Ladd's self-efficacy scale was administered to measure this variable. Subject aggression was measured through an administration of the Youth Self Report instrument. Data were analyzed through the application of one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) procedures.
The authors reported that the mean level of substance use did not differ between ethnic groups. Regression analyses indicated that subject susceptibility to peer pressure and peer alcohol use were the best predictors of individual subject substance use. The authors reported that these findings wer
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