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 |
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| Pages (from-to) | 198-206 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| Journal | Journal of Child and Adolescent Substance Abuse |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 4 Jul 2015 |
UN SDGs
This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
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SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
Keywords
- alcohol-outlet density
- social organization factors
- spatial analysis
- structural disadvantages
- student substance use
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