Parental support, parent–adolescent conflict, and substance use of Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander youth: Ethnic differences in stress-buffering and vulnerability effects.

This research study examined the overall and ethnic-specific effects of parental emotional and instrumental support, parent-adolescent interpersonal conflict, and negative life events (i.e., major life stressors, such as parental job loss or school suspension) on the substance use of Caucasian, Asian-American, Filipino, and Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander (NHOPI) youth in Hawai'i. Adolescents (N = 3,561) from 10 public...