The Influence of Parental Support and Community Belonging on Socioeconomic Status and Adolescent Substance Use over Time.

Despite a growing trend in community-based research, studies investigating the influence of multi-level community factors on individual-level outcomes remain relatively sparse. The current study aimed to extend this literature by investigating the association between community disadvantage measured at the community level, and adolescents' substance use over time. Additionally, this study also investigated the influence of parental support and community belonging on this association.

Trajectories of depressive symptoms from adolescence to emerging adulthood: The influence of parents, peers, and siblings.

The primary purpose of this study was to examine whether social relationship factors are associated with trajectories of depressive symptoms from adolescence into emerging adulthood. Specifically, adolescent-parent communication with mothers and fathers, peer support, and sibling warmth and hostility were examined in relation to depressive symptoms for girls and boys. Adolescents (N = 372; M = 16.

Parental problem drinking and adolescent externalizing behaviors: The mediating role of family functioning.

This study explored relationships among parental problem drinking, family functioning, and adolescent externalizing behaviors. The unique effects of maternal and paternal drinking were examined separately for girls and boys. The sample included 14-19 year old U.