@article{ref1,
title="Social influences on adolescent substance use",
journal="American journal of health behavior",
year="2007",
author="Simons-Morton, Bruce G.",
volume="31",
number="6",
pages="672-684",
abstract="Objectives: To assess the overtime relationships between adolescent and peer substance use and parenting practices. Methods: Five times from sixth to ninth grade, students (n=2453) in 7 middle schools reported smoking, drinking, and marijuana use; the number of substance-using friends; and parent practices. Relationships were assessed using latent growth curve modeling. Results: Adolescent substance use predicted the growth in substance-using friends, and substance-using friends predicted adolescent use, except for smoking. The negative over-time relationship between parenting practices and adolescent substance use was mediated by the growth in the number of substance-using friends. Conclusions: The results are consistent with both selection and socialization effects and provide evidence of the protective effects of positive parenting practices.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1087-3244",
doi="10.5555/ajhb.2007.31.6.672",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.5555/ajhb.2007.31.6.672"
}