RT Article
T1 Birds of a Feather Get High Together: A Reconceptualization of the Social Bond with Latent Class Analysis and a Test with Different Forms of Drug Use
JF American journal of criminal justice
VO 47
IS 4
SP 672
OP 696
A1 Erickson, Jacob H.
LA English
YR 2022
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1883304253
AB Social bond theory has received significant empirical support in examinations of drug use for decades. However, research utilizing the theory has often been fragmented and has not incorporated all four dimensions of the social bond. Additionally, much of this research has collapsed drug use into categories rather than examining specific forms of drug use. These concerns confuse the theoretical and practical insights that may be derived from such analyses. I utilize Monitoring the Future (2019) data to examine social bonding wholistically as latent classes in line with the concept of the social bond described by Hirschi (1969) and estimate the effect of the classes on specific forms of drug use. I find there are four distinct classes of social bonding among U.S. seniors most clearly differentiated by levels of attachment and commitment. Logistic regression results indicated different classes of social bonding were associated with different forms of drug use. I discuss the theoretical implications of the results and how they can be applied for criminal justice practitioners.
K1 Alcohol
K1 Cannabis
K1 Cigarettes
K1 Polydrug Use
K1 Social Bond Theory
DO 10.1007/s12103-022-09699-0