Deviant Ink: A Meta-Analysis of Tattoos and Drug Use in General Populations. Issue 6 (2nd June 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Dukes, Richard L.
• Is Part Of: Deviant behavior. Volume 37:Issue 6(2016)
• Page Start: 665
• Page End: 678
• Publication Date: 2016-06-02
• Subjects: Deviant behavior -- Periodicals; 302.54205
• DOI: 10.1080/01639625.2015.1060814
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0163-9625

Abstract

ABSTRACT: The relation between tattoos and drug use among respondents in general populations raises important questions about the etiology of a pattern of deviant behavior that declines in adulthood and is stronger in collective versus individually oriented cultures. Nineteen studies ( N = 44, 110) have a combined effect size using Cohen's d of .51 (95% CI .44, .59). Adolescents from cultures characterized by a collective orientation have the largest combined effect size ( d = .91; 95% CI .69, 1.12). Gender does not moderate the relation between tattoos and drug use. Results are interpreted using theories of maturation, strain, control, and labeling.