Summary

Factors related with young people's acttitudes to de consumption of alcohol psychoactive substances.

In this study the investigators and writers of the paper, had analyzed variables related to the consumption of alcohol and other psychoactive substances in young people, and to their attitudes towards experimentation. They made their investigantion on a sample of 775 persons between 12 anda 16 years, from four secondary schools in Spain. The results that the investigators obteined confirm that there are many factors that influence a person to consume alcohol and other illegal drugs. The factors or variables that makes a person more propense to have an acttitud of consuption were:
- Lower perception of risk
- Mistaken beliefs about the drug
- The permissive actitud to experience
- Their relation ships with groups that are used to use drugs and have antisocial behaviors
- Intentions to search for attention from the other people.

This kind of studies are very helpful for psychologysts because it makes us try to change or make more enphasis on the results that this kind of investigations so to find a solution to this social problems.