Marijuana use in adolescence: factors that affect use

Researchers often use the correlational strategy to investigate the relationship between such variables as adolescence and marijuana use. Santrock defined a correlational study to describe the strength of the relation between two or more events or characteristics. Hence, the stronger the events are correlated the more prediction one can make from the other. Thus, if one is to state that adolescent marijuana users are more likely to have skipped school in the past month, to …

…through multiple measures. For example, if experimental strategies cannot be used because of ethics and the inability to manipulate variables, perhaps the best strategies are those that draw information from multiple sources, multiple contexts, and multiple measures. As such, these strategies could allow for the most comprehensive and valid assessment to study adolescent development. References Santrock, J. (1998). Adolescence. USA: McGraw-Hill. Werner, E. (1989). Children of Garden Island: Readings in Adolescent Development. ?place and publisher?, p.1-11.