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Mechanism (biology) Sociological Quarterly

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The Long-term Effects of Self-Esteem on Depression: The Roles of Alcohol and Substance Use During Young Adulthood

Kiwoong Park, Tse‐Chuan Yang
Sociological Quarterly Summary & key facts 2017 37 citations

This study followed people from the National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth 1979 to see how self-esteem in young adulthood links to depression later on. The authors found that, for men, alcohol and drug use in young adulthood partly explained how low self-esteem led to more depression. They also found that…

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