title: School, family, and peer factors and their association with substance use in Hispanic adolescents.
abstract: The purpose of the present study was to examine how relationships among family, school, and peer factors relate to likelihood of substance use in Hispanic adolescents. Results indicated that only perceived peer substance use was directly related to adolescents' own substance use. A significant interaction was found between parental monitoring and peer use vis-à-vis substance use, which suggests that the relationship between parental monitoring and the adolescents' own use was significantly stronger among youth who reported that more of their friends used substances. Implications of these results for the design of substance use preventive interventions are discussed. Editors' Strategic Implications: This research is promising both in terms of the implications for targets of prevention programming and for the application of ecodevelopmental theory, which might guide similar efforts with different cultural groups.
authors: Miller School of Medicine, Cardiovascular Division, University of Miami, 1425 NW 10th Avenue, Miami, FL 33136, USA. Blopez21@bellsouth.net
authors: Barbara
authors: B
authors: Lopez
authors: Wei
authors: W
authors: Wang
authors: Seth J
authors: SJ
authors: Schwartz
authors: Guillermo
authors: G
authors: Prado
authors: Shi
authors: S
authors: Huang
authors: C
authors: C
authors: Hendricks Brown
authors: Hilda
authors: H
authors: Pantin
authors: José
authors: J
authors: Szapocznik
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D005195:Family Relations; D005260:Female; D005431:Florida; D006630:Hispanic or Latino; D006801:Humans; D016013:Likelihood Functions; D008297:Male; D010379:Peer Group; D012574:Schools; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000208:ethnology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires