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01-12-2010 | Original Paper

Mental Health, School Problems, and Social Networks: Modeling Urban Adolescent Substance Use

Author: Michael J. Mason

Published in: Journal of Prevention | Issue 5-6/2010

Abstract

This study tested a mediation model of the relationship with school problems, social network quality, and substance use with a primary care sample of 301 urban adolescents. It was theorized that social network quality (level of risk or protection in network) would mediate the effects of school problems, accounting for internalizing problems and relations with parents, on substance use. Results of path modeling with AMOS showed that the model provided a very good fit to the data and demonstrated partial mediation effects of social network quality on substance use. The standardized mediated effect of school problems on substance use, mediated by social network quality, was 0.13 (p < .01, 95% CI [.072, .189]). An effect size measure was applied to determine what proportion of the total effect was mediated by the intervening (social network quality) variable and produced a 0.34 effect size. The results highlight the potential preventive role of social network quality in addressing urban adolescent substance use.

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Title: Mental Health, School Problems, and Social Networks: Modeling Urban Adolescent Substance Use
Author: Michael J. Mason
Publication date: 01-12-2010
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Journal of Prevention / Issue 5-6/2010
Print ISSN: 2731-5533
Electronic ISSN: 2731-5541
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10935-010-0227-3

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