Hopelessness and Excessive Drinking among Aboriginal Adolescents: The Mediating Roles of Depressive Symptoms and Drinking to Cope

<table>The hypothesized structural model. Rectangles represent manifest variables; ovals represent latent variables. Black arrows represent significant paths (i.e., <i>P</i> <svg height="8.9125004" id="M15" style="vertical-align:-0.04095pt" version="1.1" viewbox="0 0 10.1 8.9125004" width="10.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
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</svg> .05). Grey arrows represent nonsignificant paths (i.e., <i>P</i> <svg height="8.9125004" id="M16" style="vertical-align:-0.04095pt" version="1.1" viewbox="0 0 10.1 8.9125004" width="10.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
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</svg> .05). Path coefficients are standardized. Quantity = drinking quantity; Frequency = drinking frequency; Binge = binge drinking.</table>

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Figure 2: Hopelessness and Excessive Drinking among Aboriginal Adolescents: The Mediating Roles of Depressive Symptoms and Drinking to Cope 