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Markham W, Young R, Sweeting H, West P, Aveyard P. Are the relationships between value-added education and teenage substance use explained by school-level and pupil-level school ethos indicators? a cohort study [epub ahead of print]. Social Science & Medicine 2012.

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Young R, Sweeting H, West P. Associations between DSM-IV diagnosis, psychiatric symptoms and morning cortisol levels in a community sample of adolescents. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology 2012;47:723-33.

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West P, Sweeting H, Young R, Kelly S. The relative importance of family socioeconomic status and school-based peer hierachies for morning cortisol in youth: an exploratory study. Social Science & Medicine 2010; 79:1246-53.

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Young R, West P. Do good values lead to good health-behaviours?: Longitudinal associations between young people's values and later substance-use. BMC Public Health 2010; 10:165.

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Young R. Trauma, attempted suicide and morning cortisol in a community sample of adolescents. Journal of Traumatic Stress 2010; 23:288–91.

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Sweeting H, Young R, West P. GHQ increases among Scottish 15 year olds 1987-2006. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology 2009; 44:579-86.

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Dorrer Nika, West Patrick, Young Robert, Sweeting Helen. Exploring the relationship between peer crowd, popularity and health in a Scottish secondary school: a qualitative study. MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit Working Paper no. 25, Glasgow, February 2009.


Sweeting H, West P, Young R. Obesity among Scottish 15 year olds 1987-2006: prevalence and associations with socio-economic status, well-being and worries about weight. BMC Public Health 2008; 8:404.

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Kelly S, Young R, Sweeting H, Fischer J, West P. Levels and confounders of morning cortisol collected from adolescents in a naturalistic (school) setting. Psychoneuroendocrinology 2008; 33:1257-68.
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