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Religious Social Support Protects against Social Risks for Adolescent Substance Use
Author(s) -
Peviani Kristin M.,
Brieant Alexis,
Holmes Christopher J.,
KingCasas Brooks,
KimSpoon Jungmeen
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of research on adolescence
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.342
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1532-7795
pISSN - 1050-8392
DOI - 10.1111/jora.12529
Subject(s) - psychology , substance use , mediation , peer influence , social support , developmental psychology , structural equation modeling , perspective (graphical) , social psychology , clinical psychology , statistics , mathematics , artificial intelligence , political science , computer science , law
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.