Community’s Role and School’s Role in Protecting against Student Substance Use: A Spatial Analysis

Celia C. Lo; Joe Weber; Tyrone Cheng

doi:10.1080/1067828X.2013.803944

Community’s Role and School’s Role in Protecting against Student Substance Use: A Spatial Analysis

Celia C. Lo, Joe Weber, Tyrone Cheng

Social Work and Child Advocacy

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Abstract

Employing school catchment areas (SCAs) to represent communities in Alabama, this study hypothesized that student substance use would be most prevalent where structural disadvantages were most numerous and school- and community-bestowed encouragement of or rewards for students’ prosocial behaviors were scant. We employed data from the 2000 census and a secondary data set produced by the Alabama Department of Mental Health. Overall, we observed significant, strong effects on student substance use wielded by the community’s and school’s protective roles. Our results confirmed location as an explanatory factor, in that substance use in one community affected substance use in neighboring communities.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	198-206
Number of pages	9
Journal	Journal of Child and Adolescent Substance Abuse
Volume	24
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/1067828X.2013.803944
State	Published - 4 Jul 2015

Keywords

alcohol-outlet density
social organization factors
spatial analysis
structural disadvantages
student substance use

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