Peer drug use and adolescent polysubstance use: do parenting and school factors moderate this association? Chan, Gary C.K., Kelly, Adrian B., Carroll, Annemaree and Williams, Joanne W. 2017, Peer drug use and adolescent polysubstance use: do parenting and school factors moderate this association?, Addictive behaviours, vol. 64, pp. 78-81, doi: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2016.08.004. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Peer drug use and adolescent polysubstance use: do parenting and school factors moderate this association? Author(s) Chan, Gary C.K. Kelly, Adrian B. Carroll, Annemaree Williams, Joanne W. orcid.org/0000-0002-5633-1592 Journal name Addictive behaviours Volume number 64 Start page 78 End page 81 Total pages 4 Publisher Elsevier Place of publication Amsterdam, The Netherlands Publication date 2017-01 ISSN 0306-4603 1873-6327 Keyword(s) Adolescent Family Parents Peer Polysubstance use School Summary AIMS: This study examined the association between peer drug use and adolescent polysubstance use, and investigated if this association was moderated by parenting and/or school factors. METHODS: The sample consisted of 9966 participants (mean age=14.3; 49.34% males) randomly selected from secondary schools in Victoria, Australia. Three 30-day polysubstance use profiles were derived from latent class analysis - no drug use (47.7%), mainly alcohol use (44.1%) and polysubstance use (8.2%). These profiles were then regressed on peer's drug use, family conflict, parental monitoring, parental disapproval of drug use, school commitment, reward for prosocial involvement in school and academic failure, and the interactions between peer's drug use and each of the parenting and school variables. RESULTS: Relative to non-users, peer's drug use was strongly associated with polysubstance use (OR=30.91, p<0.001), and this association was moderated by parental disapproval of drug use (OR=0.46, p<0.001). This indicated that high level of parental disapproval may mitigate the negative influence of drug using peers. School commitment and parental monitoring were significantly associated with reduced likelihood of polysubstance use (p<0.05), but they did not moderate the relationship between peer drug use and adolescent polysubstance use. All analyses were adjusted for key demographic factors such as age, gender, areas of residence, birth place and family affluence. CONCLUSION: Reinforcing parent disapproval of drug use may be an important strategy in reducing adolescent substance use. Parents may need to be more integrated into mainstream prevention programs. Language eng DOI 10.1016/j.addbeh.2016.08.004 Field of Research 170104 Forensic Psychology 1701 Psychology Socio Economic Objective 970117 Expanding Knowledge in Psychology and Cognitive Sciences HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal ERA Research output type C Journal article Copyright notice ©2016, Elsevier Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30093892 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Health School of Health and Social Development Related Links Link Description Connect to published version Go to link with your DU access privileges   Connect to Elements publication management system Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Fri, 07 Apr 2017, 14:09:45 EST Sat, 08 Apr 2017, 05:06:40 EST Mon, 08 May 2017, 06:04:39 EST Fri, 09 Jun 2017, 11:04:26 EST Fri, 09 Jun 2017, 11:13:52 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 31 times in TR Web of Science Cited 30 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 468 Abstract Views, 0 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Fri, 07 Apr 2017, 14:09:45 EST