Links between Psychotropic Substance Use and Sensation Seeking in a Prevalence Study: The Role of Some Features of Parenting Style in a Large Sample of Adolescents

Table 2

Sample features and description of substance users and substance nonusers characterized by the main sociodemographic variables according to gender.

Characteristics	All sample			Drug users			Nondrug users			value
	Male	Female	All	Male	Female	All	Male	Female	All	Male	Female	All
	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%
Age										<0.001	<0.001	<0.001
15 years	18.3	18.5	18.4	8.8	9.2	9.0	23.3	21.1	22.0
16 years	19.6	18.1	18.8	14.8	14.0	14.5	22.1	19.2	20.4
17 years	19.2	18.8	19.0	20.1	19.8	20.0	18.7	18.5	18.6
18 years	17.7	20.0	19.0	21.9	23.1	22.4	15.6	19.1	17.7
19 years	25.2	24.6	24.9	34.4	33.8	34.1	20.3	22.1	21.4
Financial family status										0.005	<0.001	<0.001
High	36.2	27.0	31.2	30.2	36.2	32.8	55.1	65.8	61.4
Medium	55.8	62.7	59.6	33.5	34.9	34.1	28.5	22.8	25.1
Low	8.0	10.4	9.3	22.1	19.0	20.8	11.2	7.6	9.1
Parental control										<0.001	<0.001	<0.001
Always	46.5	59.4	53.6	14.2	9.9	12.3	5.3	3.8	4.4
Sometimes	30.2	25.4	27.6	38.1	29.1	34.2	35.2	26.4	30.0
Seldom	15.0	10.1	12.3	52.8	58.1	55.1	57.4	64.0	61.3
Never	8.3	5.1	6.6	9.1	12.8	10.7	7.4	9.7	8.7
Mother relationship										<0.001	<0.001	<0.001
Dissatisfied	7.0	12.2	9.8	11.0	20.3	15.0	4.9	10.0	7.9
Neutral	10.2	13.6	12.1	13.3	16.0	14.4	8.7	12.9	11.2
Satisfied	82.8	74.2	78.1	75.7	63.8	70.5	86.5	77.1	80.9
Father relationship										<0.001	<0.001	<0.001
Dissatisfied	10.7	18.9	15.2	15.0	30.0	21.5	8.4	15.9	12.8
Neutral	12.1	16.6	14.5	16.3	17.3	16.7	9.9	16.4	13.7
Satisfied	77.3	64.5	70.3	68.7	52.7	61.8	81.7	67.7	73.4
Family structure										0.006	<0.001	<0.001
Intact	89.9	88.2	89.0	87.9	81.4	85.1	91.0	90.0	90.4
Reconstructed	1.5	2.2	1.9	1.6	3.5	2.5	1.4	1.8	1.6
Single parent	6.9	8.4	7.7	8.8	13.2	10.7	5.9	7.1	6.6
Other	1.7	1.3	1.4	1.7	1.8	1.8	1.8	1.1	1.3
All samples	4,885	5,905	10,790	1,671	1,275	2,946	3,214	4,630	7,844