@article{ref1,
title="Does social support mediate or moderate socioeconomic differences in self-rated health among adolescents?",
journal="International journal of public health",
year="2012",
author="Salonna, Ferdinand and Geckova, Andrea Madarasova and Zezula, Ivan and Sleskova, Maria and Groothoff, Johan W. and Reijneveld, Sijmen A. and van Dijk, Jitse P.",
volume="57",
number="3",
pages="609-617",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: Social support is assumed to be a protective social determinant of health. The aim of this cross-sectional study was to explore whether social support from the father, mother and friends mediates or moderates the association between socioeconomic position and self-rated health among adolescents. METHODS: The sample consisted of 1,863 secondary school students from the Kosice region in Slovakia (mean age 16.85; 53.3% females, response rate 98.9%). We assessed the mediation and moderation effects of social support from the mother, father and friends on the relation between socioeconomic position and self-rated health, performing binary logistic regression models. Socioeconomic position was measured by parents' education, the family affluence scale and financial strain. RESULTS: Social support from the father mediated the association between family affluence and self-rated health among both males and females and the association between financial strain and self-rated health among males only. No moderating effect of social support on socioeconomic differences in self-rated health was found. CONCLUSION: Father involvement seems to have the potential to mediate socioeconomic differences in health during adolescence.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1661-8556",
doi="10.1007/s00038-011-0300-6",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00038-011-0300-6"
}