Religious Social Support Protects against Social Risks for Adolescent Substance Use.

We used a social developmental perspective to identify how prominent social contexts influence substance use during adolescence. Longitudinal data were collected annually from 167 parent-adolescent dyads over four years. We investigated whether parent substance use was related to adolescent substance use directly and indirectly via peer substance use and whether these associations were moderated by religious social support. Structural equation modeling (SEM) analysis indicated significant moderated mediation: Greater parent substance use predicted increases in adolescent substance use indirectly via increased peer substance use when adolescent religious social support was low or average, but not high. These results suggest religious social support may protect adolescents against prominent social risks for intergenerational substance use.

• Publication year

  2019

• Venue

  Journal of Research on Adolescence

• Publication date

  2019-08-30

• Fields of study

  Sociology, Medicine, Psychology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1111/jora.12529PMID 31469493PMCID PMC7048646
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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