Comparing injunctive marijuana use norms of salient reference groups among college student marijuana users and nonusers
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Comparing injunctive marijuana use norms of salient reference groups among college student marijuana users and nonusers.
Marijuana is the most commonly used illicit drug among college students and has the potential for various negative outcomes. Perceptions of what constitutes typical approval/acceptability of a reference group (i.e. injunctive social norms) have been shown to have strong utility as predictors of health-risk behaviors in the college context, yet this construct remains significantly understudied f...
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عنوان ژورنال: Addictive Behaviors
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0306-4603
DOI: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2011.02.004