| Abstract: | Students at a traditional, conservative, independent college were measured for identity achievement status and drug use. Drug abstainers were found to be more foreclosed than drug experimenters, as implied by previous research. Unlike the findings and implications of previous research, however, drug experimenters were not more identity achieved than drug abstainers. Further analysis revealed an interaction between drug use and the experience of crisis and commitment. In comparison with drug experimenters, abstainers had higher scores on commitment, without a corresponding decrease in scores on crisis. These findings were compared with previous research. The hypothesis that the development of drug abstainers has been arrested at the identity foreclosure stage was not supported for this subculture at this time. |
