A Social Operational Model of Urban Adolescents' Tobacco and Substance Use: A Mediational Analysis

Autor/inn/en	Mason, Michael J.; Mennis, Jeremy; Schmidt, Christopher D.
Titel	A Social Operational Model of Urban Adolescents' Tobacco and Substance Use: A Mediational Analysis
Quelle	In: Journal of Adolescence, 34 (2011) 5, S.1055-1063 (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0140-1971
DOI	10.1016/j.adolescence.2010.11.002
Schlagwörter	Smoking; Posttraumatic Stress Disorder; At Risk Persons; Prevention; Adolescents; Social Networks; Urban Areas; Substance Abuse; Social Influences; Drinking; Drug Abuse; Symptoms (Individual Disorders); Parent Child Relationship; Path Analysis; Effect Size + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Rauchen; Risikogruppe; Prävention; Vorbeugung; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Social network; Soziales Netzwerk; Urban area; Stadtregion; Drug use; Drug consomption; Drogenkonsum; Sozialer Einfluss; Trinken; Psychiatrische Symptomatik; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Pfadanalyse
Abstract	This study tested a mediation model of the relationship with tobacco use, social network quality (level of risk or protection in a network), and substance use (alcohol and/or illicit drugs) with a sample of 301 urban adolescents. It was theorized that social network quality would mediate the effect of tobacco use, accounting for PTSD symptoms and parent-teen relationships, on substance use. Results of path modeling with AMOS showed that the model provided an overall very good fit to the data and demonstrated partial mediation effects of social network quality on substance use. An effect-size measure was applied to determine what proportion of the total effect was mediated by the intervening (social network) variable and produced a moderate effect size (0.31). Results highlight the mediating role of social network quality on risk factors for adolescent substance use and are informative to prevention science in advancing social operational models of substance use. (Contains 1 table and 2 figures.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10