Monitoring the Future: Questionnaire
Responses From the Nation's High School Seniors. Monitoring the Future
12th-grade descriptive results for nearly 2,000 items are now available
in annual volumes for 1975 through 2005. Comparison between volumes allows readers
to understand the changes in viewpoints, attitudes, and experiences of young people
over the past 31 years. Questions include drug use and views about drugs, delinquency
and victimization, changing roles for women, confidence in social institutions,
concerns about energy and ecology, and social and ethical attitudes.
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The Decline of Substance Use in Young Adulthood:
Changes in Social Activities, Roles, and Beliefs examines why the new freedoms
and responsibilities of young adulthood cause substance use to change. This book
explores how changes in social and religious experiences and changes in attitudes
towards substance use among young adults are related to changes in substance use,
family transitions, living arrangements, education, and employment. Based on the
nationwide Monitoring the Future surveys of young people followed from high school
into adulthood, the research covers the last 25 years, a period when drug use and
views about drugs underwent important changes.
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The 2003 European School Survey
Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs (ESPAD) is the third data collection
in the collaborative effort among independent research teams in almost 40 European
countries. Modeled after Monitoring the Future, the survey is charged with collecting
comparable data on alcohol, tobacco, and drug use among 15- and 16-year-olds. The
report compares these data with Monitoring the Future 10th-grade data, with the
long-term goal of comparing trends among countries.
Excerpts (PDF, 3401K)
of the study's results are available. See also the 2001
press release (PDF, 36K).
Visit the ESPAD Web site for information on securing the full report.
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