Socioeconomic disparities in adolescent substance use: Role of enjoyable alternative substance-free activities

Nafeesa Andrabi, Rubin Khoddam and Adam M. Leventhal

Social Science & Medicine, 2017, vol. 176, issue C, 175-182

Abstract: To examine whether reduced substance-free enjoyable activity (i.e., ‘alternative reinforcers’) is a mediating mechanism linking lower socioeconomic status and adolescent substance use risk.

Keywords: Health disparities; Socioeconomic status; Alternative reinforcers; Adolescents; Substance use (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2016.12.032

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