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Social network isolation mediates associations between risky symptoms and substance use in the high school transition.

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Hussong, AM; Ennett, ST; McNeish, DM; Cole, VT; Gottfredson, NC; Rothenberg, WA; Faris, RW
Published in: Development and psychopathology
May 2020

The current study examined whether social status and social integration, two related but distinct indicators of an adolescent's standing within a peer network, mediate the association between risky symptoms (depressive symptoms and deviant behavior) and substance use across adolescence. The sample of 6,776 adolescents participated in up to seven waves of data collection spanning 6th to 12th grades. Scores indexing social status and integration were derived from a social network analysis of six schools and subsequent psychometric modeling. Results of latent growth models showed that social integration and status mediated the relation between risky symptoms and substance use and that risky symptoms mediated the relation between social standing and substance use during the high school transition. Before this transition, pathways involving deviant behavior led to high social integration and status and in turn to substance use. After this transition, both deviant behavior and depressive symptoms led to low social integration and status and in turn greater substance use. These findings suggest that the high school transition is a risky time for substance use related to the interplay of increases in depressive symptoms and deviant behavior on the one hand and decreases in social status and integration on the other.

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Development and psychopathology

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EISSN

1469-2198

ISSN

0954-5794

Publication Date

May 2020

Volume

32

Issue

2

Start / End Page

615 / 630

Related Subject Headings

  • Substance-Related Disorders
  • Social Networking
  • Schools
  • Risk-Taking
  • Peer Group
  • Humans
  • Developmental & Child Psychology
  • Adolescent Behavior
  • Adolescent
  • 5203 Clinical and health psychology
 

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Hussong, A. M., Ennett, S. T., McNeish, D. M., Cole, V. T., Gottfredson, N. C., Rothenberg, W. A., & Faris, R. W. (2020). Social network isolation mediates associations between risky symptoms and substance use in the high school transition. Development and Psychopathology, 32(2), 615–630. https://doi.org/10.1017/s095457941900049x
Hussong, Andrea M., Susan T. Ennett, Daniel M. McNeish, Veronica T. Cole, Nisha C. Gottfredson, W Andrew Rothenberg, and Robert W. Faris. “Social network isolation mediates associations between risky symptoms and substance use in the high school transition.Development and Psychopathology 32, no. 2 (May 2020): 615–30. https://doi.org/10.1017/s095457941900049x.
Hussong AM, Ennett ST, McNeish DM, Cole VT, Gottfredson NC, Rothenberg WA, et al. Social network isolation mediates associations between risky symptoms and substance use in the high school transition. Development and psychopathology. 2020 May;32(2):615–30.
Hussong, Andrea M., et al. “Social network isolation mediates associations between risky symptoms and substance use in the high school transition.Development and Psychopathology, vol. 32, no. 2, May 2020, pp. 615–30. Epmc, doi:10.1017/s095457941900049x.
Hussong AM, Ennett ST, McNeish DM, Cole VT, Gottfredson NC, Rothenberg WA, Faris RW. Social network isolation mediates associations between risky symptoms and substance use in the high school transition. Development and psychopathology. 2020 May;32(2):615–630.
Journal cover image

Published In

Development and psychopathology

DOI

EISSN

1469-2198

ISSN

0954-5794

Publication Date

May 2020

Volume

32

Issue

2

Start / End Page

615 / 630

Related Subject Headings

  • Substance-Related Disorders
  • Social Networking
  • Schools
  • Risk-Taking
  • Peer Group
  • Humans
  • Developmental & Child Psychology
  • Adolescent Behavior
  • Adolescent
  • 5203 Clinical and health psychology