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School connectedness and Guatemalan youth substance use: Does gender matter?

Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal

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Title School connectedness and Guatemalan youth substance use: Does gender matter?
 
Creator Martinez, Marcos J.
Kawam, Elisa
Marsiglia, Flavio F.
Salas-Wright, Christopher
Ayers, Stephanie L.
Porta, Maria
 
Subject social work; education; international; culture
substance use; protective factor; global health; school connectedness; gender; adolescents
adolescent substance use
 
Description This study examined if school connectedness was protective for youth and if the effects of school connectedness on alcohol and cigarette/tobacco use varied by gender among a cross-sectional sample of Guatemalan youth (N = 322, Mage = 12.16, 53% male). Using Ordinary Least Squares regression, a significant inverse association was found between school connectedness and past 30-day alcohol use frequency (b = -.11, p < .01), past 30-day alcohol use amount (b = -.12, p < .01), past 30-day cigarette/tobacco use frequency (b = -.06, p < .05), and past 30-day cigarette/tobacco use amount (b = -.05, p < .10). A significant school connectedness by gender interaction effect was also found for all alcohol and cigarette/tobacco use outcomes. Although school connectedness appeared to be protective for youth, females had greater substance use once gender was accounted for. Findings are discussed further in relation to gender, youth prevention efforts and health.
 
Publisher Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal
 
Contributor National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities
 
Date 2016-04-26
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://www.scholarpublishing.org/index.php/ASSRJ/article/view/1923
10.14738/assrj.34.1923
 
Source Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal; Vol 3, No 4 (2016): Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal
10.14738/assrj.34.2016
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://www.scholarpublishing.org/index.php/ASSRJ/article/view/1923/pdf
 
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