Testing three pathways to substance use and delinquency among low-income African American adolescents

Phillip L. Marotta and Dexter R. Voisin

Children and Youth Services Review, 2017, vol. 75, issue C, 7-14

Abstract: Mounting literature suggests that parental monitoring, risky peer norms, and future orientation correlate with illicit drug use and delinquency. However, few studies have investigated these constructs simultaneously in a single statistical model with low income African American youth. This study examined parental monitoring, peer norms and future orientation as primary pathways to drug use and delinquent behaviors in a large sample of African American urban adolescents.

Keywords: Peer norms; Parental monitoring; Future orientation; African American youth; Substance use; Delinquency (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2017.02.009

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