Dangers and pleasures

Drug attitudes and experiences among young people

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2300935
AutoresMargaretha Järvinen (0000-0002-2038-0747, SFI, The Danish National Centre for Social Research, Denmark and University of Copenhagen, Denmark, autor de correspondencia), Jeanette Østergaard (0000-0002-6659-7423, Danish National Centre for Social Research)
Año2011
Volumen54
Número4
Páginas333-350
Fecha de publicación2011-12-01
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaActa Sociologica (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0001-6993 • E-ISSN: 1502-3869
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0001699311422018
OpenAlexW2075161346
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas10
Referencias citadas48

This is a study of young people's conceptions of illegal drug use as dangerous and/or pleasurable and an analysis of the relationship between attitudes to drugs, drinking, friends' reported drug use and own experience with drug use and drinking. The article applies a mixed methods approach using both survey data and focus group interviews. The main statistical method is Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA), which constructs a social space of young people's attitudes to drugs and drug experiences relationally. We identify four interrelated positions on illegal drug use among 17 to 19-year-old Danes: the anti-drug position, usually held by youths who do not use illegal drugs and do not have drug-using friends; the ambivalent position, occupied by non-users who report that they have drug-using friends; the transitory position, held by cannabis users, some of whom express positive attitudes to 'hard' illegal drugs; and, finally, the pro-drug position, characteristic of drug users with low risk perceptions and high pleasure-orientation. We use the focus group interviews to demonstrate how youths occupying these differing positions argue for and against drugs and which risks and pleasures they associate with drug use

Ambivalence · Business · Cannabis · Drug · Focus group · Perception · Pleasure · Position (finance · Psychiatry · Sociology · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Homelessness and Social Issues · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology · Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes

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