Relationships Between Drug Knowledge and Drug Attitudes for Students in Large, Intermediate, and Small Schools

Abstract

Relationships between attitudes toward seven different drugs—alcohol, amphetamines, barbiturates, heroin, LSD, marijuana, and tobacco—and general knowledge of drugs were investigated. Subjects were 300 12th-grade students randomly selected from large, intermediate, and small public high schools. Generally, attitudes toward these drugs were significantly related to drug knowledge. Although school size and sex did moderate the magnitude of these relationships in some cases, the correlations for the subjects grouped by sex and school size tended to reflect the correlations for the population.