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Volume 40, Issue 4 , Pages 357.e9-357.e18 , April 2007

Social and School Connectedness in Early Secondary School as Predictors of Late Teenage Substance Use, Mental Health, and Academic Outcomes

Lyndal Bond, Ph.D.
- Centre for Adolescent Health, Royal Children’s Hospital, Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne and Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia
- Address correspondence to: Lyndal Bond, VicHealth Public Health Fellow Centre for Adolescent Health, 2 Gatehouse Street, Parkville Victoria 3052, Australia.
Helen Butler, B.A.(Hons), Dip.Ed., G.Dip. in Adol. Health
- Centre for Adolescent Health, Royal Children’s Hospital, Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne and Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia
Lyndal Thomas, B.Sc.(Hons)
- Key Centre for Women’s Health in Society, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
John Carlin, Ph.D.
- Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics Unit, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute and University of Melbourne Department of Paediatrics, Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
Sara Glover, Ph.D.
- Department of Education and Training, Victoria, Australia
Glenn Bowes, Ph.D.
- Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
George Patton, M.D.
- Centre for Adolescent Health, Royal Children’s Hospital, Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne and Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia

Received 16 March 2006 ,Accepted 25 October 2006.

(a) Simple bivariate associations between school connectedness in Year 8 and depressive symptoms and substance use in Year 10 and school outcomes, represented as ORs, with 95% CI, compared to referenc

(a) Simple bivariate associations between school connectedness in Year 8 and depressive symptoms and substance use in Year 10 and school outcomes, represented as ORs, with 95% CI, compared to reference category of very high school connectedness. (b) Simple bivariate associations between social connectedness and interpersonal conflict in Year 8 and depressive symptoms and substance use in Year 10 and school outcomes represented as ORs, with 95% CI, compared to reference category of good social connectedness, no recent arguments with others, and not bullied, respectively.
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