\u201cParents play an important role in shaping the decisions their children make when it comes to alcohol and marijuana,\u201d says Dr. Toby Parcel, a professor of sociology at NC State and co-author of a paper on the work. \u201cTo be clear, school programs that address alcohol and marijuana use are definitely valuable, but the bonds parents form with their children are more important. Ideally, we can have both<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n The researchers evaluated data from a nationally representative study that collected information from more than 10,000 students, as well as their parents, teachers and school administrators.<\/p>\n Specifically, the researchers looked at how \u201cfamily social capital\u201d and \u201cschool social capital\u201d affected the likelihood and\/or frequency of marijuana use and alcohol use by children. Family social capital can essentially be described as the bonds between parents and children, such as trust, open lines of communication and active engagement in a child\u2019s life<\/strong>. School social capital captures a school\u2019s ability to serve as a positive environment for learning, including measures such as student involvement in extracurricular activities, teacher morale and the ability of teachers to address the needs of individual students.<\/p>\n The researchers evaluated marijuana use and alcohol use separately. In both cases, researchers found that students with high levels of family social capital and low levels of school social capital were less likely to have used marijuana or alcohol \u2013 or to have used those substances less frequently<\/strong> \u2013 than students with high levels of school social capital but low family social capital.<\/p>\n The paper, \u201cDoes Capital at Home Matter More than Capital at School? The Case of Adolescent Alcohol and Marijuana Use,\u201d is published online in the Journal of Drug Issues<\/em>. The paper was co-authored by Dr. Mikaela Dufur of BYU and Benjamin McKune, a Ph.D. student at Penn State.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From the NC State University press release: New research from North Carolina State University, Brigham Young University and the Pennsylvania State University finds that parental involvement is more important than… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[185,45,128,73,124],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8922"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8922"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9064,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8922\/revisions\/9064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Alcohol\"](\"http:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/images\/blogpics\/Alcohol.jpg\" "\\"Alcohol\\"")
New research from North Carolina State University, Brigham Young University and the Pennsylvania State University finds that parental involvement is more important than the school environment when it comes to preventing or limiting alcohol and marijuana use by children<\/strong>.<\/p>\n