The influence of the perceived home drug environment on college student drug use

Abstract

The use of legal and illegal drugs at Ivy College, a small private liberal arts college in the West, was found to be directly related to four dimensions of the perceived home drug environment. These were perceived parental attitudes toward drug use, and perceived drug use of mother, father, and siblings. Perceived siblings' drug use was the most important of the four variables in its effect on subject's drug use. Relationships between the perceived home drug environment and subject's drug use were fairly strong where the drugs were the same in both instances, but weak when the drugs differed from home to subject's use.