Substance abuse

Date

1970

Contributor

Advisor

Department

Instructor

Depositor

Speaker

Researcher

Consultant

Interviewer

Narrator

Transcriber

Annotator

Journal Title

Journal ISSN

Volume Title

Publisher

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Volume

Number/Issue

Starting Page

Ending Page

Alternative Title

Abstract

The study dealt with the problem of addiction of youth in the State of Hawaii. The main focus of research was on two kinds of addiction--use of LSD and glue sniffing. The sample consisted of 120 randomly selected young people in their teens. A questionnaire and tests were administered in order to test two general hypotheses: 1) Personality characteristics will provide better discrimination between addicted and nonaddicted subjects than will biographical and demographic data. 2) Demographic and biographical data will provide better discriminations than will personality characteristics in distinguishing between different kinds of addiction. These hypotheses were generally approved by the findings. Specific characteristics (personality and bio-demographic) which distinguished the LSD group from the glue-sniffing group were found. Extensive data from field work were presented. The hypothesis and general theoretical framework was that of existential philosophy.

Description

Keywords

Drug abuse, Glue sniffing, LSD (Drug), Youth--Drug use

Citation

Extent

Format

Geographic Location

Hawaii

Time Period

Related To

Theses for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (University of Hawaii (Honolulu)). Psychology; no. 281

Related To (URI)

Table of Contents

Rights

All UHM dissertations and theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission from the copyright owner.

Rights Holder

Local Contexts

Email libraryada-l@lists.hawaii.edu if you need this content in ADA-compliant format.