How are social support effects mediated? A test with parental support and adolescent substance use.

Wills, Thomas A.; Cleary, Sean D.

doi:10.1037/0022-3514.71.5.937

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“…In recent years, a number of studies have highlighted the importance of relational support for adolescents' psychosocial functioning. As a matter of fact, family and social support has been found to be inversely related to behavioural problems such as substance use (Wills & Clearly, 1996), delinquency (Windle, 1992), emotional problems, and low selfesteem levels.…”

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Parent-child relationships in Italian families: connectedness and autonomy in the transition to adulthood

Scabini

2000

Psic.: Teor. e Pesq.

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-This contribution focuses on the changes in parent-child relationships during the transition to adulthood, that implies a modification of the balance of connectedness and autonomy. The principal aim was twofold: 1) to verify how relational support and style of decision making -respectively markers of family connectedness and autonomy -change from adolescence to young adulthood; 2) to compare the perceptions of parents and children through a measure of agreement. The sample was composed of 259 Italian families with a child between 17 and 25 years of age. Participants filled out a self report questionnaire including the Parent-Adolescent Support Scale and the Style of Decision Making Scale. Results highlighted that children perceived a significant increase in relational support and in autonomy from late adolescence to young adulthood. Furthermore, agreement between parents and children increased by aging. Therefore, near the transition to adulthood, parents and young adults are closer to each other than during late adolescence.

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Parent-child relationships in Italian families: connectedness and autonomy in the transition to adulthood

Scabini

2000

Psic.: Teor. e Pesq.

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“…A separate body of research has shown that poor parent-child communication and poor parental support are frequently associated with greater substance use among youth (Anderson & Henry 1994;Selnow, 1987;Wills & Cleary 1996). For example, infrequent communication has been found to be associated with higher rates of alcohol and tobacco use (Cohen et al 1994).…”

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Family practices and adolescent use of legal and illegal drugs: a review

Ahlström¹

2002

Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs

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“…For example, Allen, Moore, Kupermine, and Bell (1998) found that secure attachment, assessed through a structured interview, predicted competence with peers, lower levels of internalizing behaviors, and lower levels of deviant behavior. Parental support appears to influence health risk behavior through a variety of pathways, including adaptive coping, academic competence, and fewer deviant peer affiliations (Wills & Cleary, 1996). In addition, relations with parents may interact with other interpersonal factors to influence behavior (e.g., peer orientation, Bogenschneider, Wu, Raffaelli, & Tsay, 1998;Gerrard, Gibbons, Zhao, Russell, & ReisBergan, 1999).…”

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Adolescent health psychology.

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Holmbeck²,

Greenley³

2002

Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology

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In this article, a biopsychosocial model of adolescent development is used as an organizing framework for a review of primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention research with adolescent populations. During adolescence many critical health behaviors emerge, affecting future disease outcomes in adulthood. In addition, most of the predominant causes of morbidity and mortality in adolescence are unique to this period of development, indicating that health-focused interventions must be tailored specifically to adolescents. Moreover, it is during adolescence that lifelong patterns of self-management of and adjustment to chronic health conditions are established. Thus, an increased focus on adolescence in health psychology research is important both to improve the health of adolescents per se and to optimize health trajectories into adulthood.Adolescence has historically been a developmental period of relative neglect with respect to research on both mental and physical health intervention and outcome. Perhaps such neglect has occurred because, from a health perspective, morbidity and mortality rates are quite low during adolescence compared with other developmental periods (Holden & Nitz, 1995). However, as we argue in this article, adolescence is a pivotal period of development with respect to health and illness. First, it is during adolescence that many positive health behaviors (e.g., diet and exercise) are consolidated and important health risk behaviors (e.g., smoking, alcohol and drug use, and unsafe sexual practices) are first evident; thus, adolescence is a logical time period for primary prevention intervention. Second, the predominant causes of morbidity and mortality in adolescence are quite different from adults, indicating that early identification and treatment of adolescent health problems must be directed toward a unique set of targets in this age group. Moreover, because of the particular developmental issues that characterize adolescence, intervention efforts designed for adults are often inappropriate or ineffective in an adolescent population. Finally, even when chronic illnesses are congenital or begin in childhood (e.g., spina bifida, Type 1 diabetes), the manner in which the transition from childhood to adolescence to young adulthood is negotiated has important implications for disease outcomes throughout the remainder of the life span.Given the unique developmental challenges of adolescence, we argue that an effective and theoretically sound approach to adolescent health psychology research and treatment must be firmly grounded in a developmental framework. We present a biopsychosocial model of adolescent development as one such framework that can inform primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention research and interventions targeting adolescents. This article is organized around the three levels of health-related prevention as they apply to adolescence. Within these levels, we include discussion of the adolescent-focused aspects of what Smith and Ruiz (1999) characterize as the predominant res...

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How are social support effects mediated? A test with parental support and adolescent substance use.

Cited by 300 publications

References 63 publications

Parent-child relationships in Italian families: connectedness and autonomy in the transition to adulthood

Parent-child relationships in Italian families: connectedness and autonomy in the transition to adulthood

Family practices and adolescent use of legal and illegal drugs: a review

Adolescent health psychology.

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