Involvement in studies and drug use of undergraduate emerging adults

Abstract

In recent decades there have been a lot of changes in industrialized societies that have contributed to some researchers determined that emergence of a new stage in the development of young people, it called “Emerging Adulthood”. In this study, we pretend to know drug use, involvement studies and family and friend social support perceived by emerging adults. Besides, the main aim of our study is analysed how social support and friends perceived by emerging adults is related to this involvement studies and alcohol, tobacco and hashish and marijuana consumption. This study is a transversal quantitative research of a group of 209 boys and girls undergraduate emerging adults. Questionnaires about family and friend social support, involvement studies and alcohol, tobacco and hashish or marijuana consumption were applied. The results indicate that emerging adults perceive high levels of family support and friend support. Moreover, they show a high level of involvement in studies. Besides, they give great importance to the family which influences their involvement in studies and drug use hashish or marijuana consumption. This work is one of the few researches about emerging adulthood in Spain and underlines the importance of its knowledge and intervention in the field of Psychology on this life cycle stage.