ArticleDrug and alcohol review2024
Subjective norms as a mediator between exposure to online alcohol and marijuana content and offline use among adolescents.
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- Modeling Daily Digital Experiences in Adolescents: A Multilevel Latent Class Analysis of Social Media Engagement Patterns and Exposure to Alcohol-Related Content.International journal of human-computer interaction · 2026Article
- Investigating Oral Health Information Avoidance Among Chinese Young Adults: The Roles of Subjective Norms, Message Fatigue, and Loss Aversion-A Cross-Sectional Study.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- The impact of a brief web-based intervention on improving intention and awareness related to reducing alcohol consumption during pregnancy among high-risk female college student drinkers: a quasi-experimental study.Women's health nursing (Seoul, Korea) · 2025Article
- Cannabis Marketing Strategies in the United States: A Descriptive Analysis of Four Prominent Companies.Substance use & addiction journal · 2025Article
- Social media use, cannabis attitudes, and cannabis use among adolescents: An observational study.Preventive medicine reports · 2025Article
- Exposure to drug-related online content and drug use among racial/ethnic minority youth in the United States.Journal of ethnicity in substance abuse · 2025Article
- Multilevel associations of peer cognitive factors and adolescent cannabis use in a legal recreational cannabis region.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
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Abstract
introductionWhile adolescent substance use (SU) may be viewed as normative, SU can quickly escalate leading to consequences. Social media use may increase SU risk. Despite using social media to connect with others, adolescents also view depictions of glamorised SU by both peers and influential figures. Exposure to online alcohol and marijuana content may impact subjective norms (i.e., injunctive and descriptive) ultimately leading to increased offline SU. Data from a multi-wave project was collected to assess whether subjective norms-mediated associations between exposure to alcohol and marijuana content by peers and influential figures on Instagram and Snapchat and offline SU.
methodsAt Wave 1, participants were 264 adolescents (M
resultsInjunctive norms significantly mediated associations between exposure to alcohol content posted by peers and influential figures on Instagram and Snapchat and offline alcohol use. Injunctive norms significantly mediated associations between exposure to marijuana content posted by peers and influential figures on Instagram, and peers on Snapchat and offline marijuana use. Descriptive norms significantly mediated associations between exposure to alcohol content posted by peers on Instagram, as well as peers and influential figures on Snapchat and offline alcohol use. DISCUSSION AND
conclusionIncreased exposure to online SU content was more consistently associated with injunctive norms rather than descriptive norms. Future research should examine which social media features (e.g., the like button) contribute to increased subjective norms. Overall, findings suggest that social media may strongly convey approval of SU behaviours rather than actual use.
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