How Are Social Support Effects Mediated? A Test with Parental Support and Adolescent Substance Use

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 71, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 937-952

  Wills, Thomas Ashby ^a   Cleary, Scan D ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADDICTION; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CANNABIS ADDICTION; CHILD; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CONTROL; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; MALE; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

ADOLESCENT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; CHILD; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MARIJUANA ABUSE; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS;

EID: 0030279982     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.71.5.937     Document Type: Article

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