Results indicated that parental influences had only minor predictive power for outcomes at follow-up, while associations with deviant peers were strongly related to alcohol and drug use as well as involvement in criminal activities. Significant relationships were also found, especially in females, between low satisfaction with school and greater severity of drug use. An integrative model for drug use severity among inhalant users. The models addressed the interrelationships of peer deviancy, psychological vulnerability, availability of inhalants, family environment, acculturative stress, and low social assets and their effects longitudinally on inhalant use and drug use severity. They differed mainly in the specification of direct influences on inhalant use.
Results suggest that the integrative model was the better model for explaining the data.
The most important component represented peer influences, and only an indirect effect was found for psychological vulnerability on inhalant use and drug use severity. There was no support found for direct influences of availability of inhalants and low socioeconomic assets on inhalant use.