Purpose Informed by ecological theories and models of influence, this review discusses
various psychosocial risk and protective factors that contribute to adolescent substance use …

Objective: Adolescents' relationships with their peers play a pivotal role in their substance-
use behaviors. As such, decades of research have examined how substance use relates to …

Purpose The purpose of the study was to examine the trends between 2002 and 2018 in
school pressure and school satisfaction among 15-year-old students, across countries and …

Social isolation is broadly associated with poor mental health and risky behaviors in
adolescence, a time when peers are critical for healthy development. However, expectations …

Aim A systematic review was performed to summarize the key findings of the peer influence
on cannabis use through Social Network Analysis (SNA) studies and identify limitations and …

Scholars have become increasingly interested in how social environments condition the
relationships between individual risk-factors and adolescent behavior. An appreciable …

We performed a secondary analysis of Adolescent Health Risk Behavior Survey data (N=
937), examining associations between lifetime alcohol and marijuana use with intrapersonal …

Background The aim of this study is to explore the association of family socioeconomic
status (SES) and internal and external schoolwork support with adolescents' school …

In an attempt to examine the extent to which the COVID-19 pandemic affected the lives of
primary school students, a longitudinal study was conducted focused on students' school …

Social behaviour is disturbed in many substance abuse and psychiatric disorders. Given the
consensus that social behaviours of lower mammals may help to understand some human …