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Family, educational and peer influences on the alcohol use of female and male adolescents.
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Family bonding appears to be an important social control mechanism that may decrease the risk of alcohol abuse among adolescents.Abstract:
Objective: This research provides estimates of how strongly family bonds, family drug use, age, educational commitment and peer drug use are associated with the frequency and amount of alcohol consumption among adolescents, and compares females and males. Method: Using questionnaire data from a random sample of 27,000 adolescents, structural equation modeling is used to evaluate the strength of several risk factors. Results: The influence of family bonds is moderately strong but operates primarily through peers; adolescents with higher family bonds are less likely to have close friends who are involved with drugs. Family bonds have a relatively strong, positive association with educational commitment, and adolescents with a higher educational commitment tend to drink less frequently; and when they drink, they tend to consume smaller amounts. Living in a family where other family members have a problem with alcohol or other drugs increases the chance that an adolescent has friends who drink or use other dr...read more
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Structural Equations with Latent Variables
TL;DR: The General Model, Part I: Latent Variable and Measurement Models Combined, Part II: Extensions, Part III: Extensions and Part IV: Confirmatory Factor Analysis as discussed by the authors.
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Testing Structural Equation Models
Kenneth A. Bollen,J. Scott Long +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, Bollen et al. proposed a model fitting metric for Structural Equation Models, which is based on the Monte Carlo evaluation of Goodness-of-Fit measures.
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A new scale of social desirability independent of psychopathology.
Douglas P. Crowne,David Marlowe +1 more
TL;DR: It seems clear that the items in the Edwards Social Desirability Scale would, of necessity, have extreme social desirability scale positions or, in other words, be statistically deviant.
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Structural Equations with Latent Variables.
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Risk and protective factors for alcohol and other drug problems in adolescence and early adulthood: Implications for substance abuse prevention.
TL;DR: The authors suggest that the most promising route to effective strategies for the prevention of adolescent alcohol and other drug problems is through a risk-focused approach.