Self-efficacy, social capital, and the common liability to addiction: relationships to adolescent choices for addiction treatment
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This dissertation examined the relationship between the predictor variables
of adolescent refusal self-efficacy, social capital, and the common liability to addiction
and the outcome variable of continuing care choices. Using a sample of 71 adolescents
who had attended The CASTLE, High Point treatment center’s adolescent center in 2011,
evidence was found to support the relationship between refusal self-efficacy, social
capital and these outcomes. Following the results of preliminary analyses, family history
of drug use was included in the list of predictor variables examined, in relation to the
outcome of adolescent continuing care choices. It was determined that refusal selfefficacy
and social capital were related to outcome choices of adolescents during
treatment. Furthermore, including the independent variables of family history of drug use
and common liability to addiction provided a more robust display of the directions
adolescents moved towards.
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