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Publication Date: 2014
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Alcohol Use and Related Behaviors among Late-Adolescent Urban Youths: Peer and Parent Influences
Schwinn, Traci M.; Schinke, Steven P.
Journal of Child & Adolescent Substance Abuse, v23 n1 p58-64 2014
Peer and parent influences on alcohol use and related risky behaviors were examined in a sample of late-adolescent (M = 17.3 years; SD = 1.11 years) urban youths. Participants (N = 400) completed an online measure assessing peer influences of alcohol use and alcohol offers and also parental influences of rules against alcohol use and perceived levels of emotional family support, relative to youths' alcohol use, binge drinking, alcohol-related consequences, and intentions to drink. Hierarchical regression analyses revealed that increased peer alcohol use and alcohol offers were associated with youths' increased drinking, binge drinking, alcohol-related consequences, and intentions to drink. Controlling for peer influences, parental rules against alcohol use were associated with decreased drinking, binge drinking, and intentions to drink; increased levels of family support were associated with decreased alcohol-related consequences and intentions to drink. These findings suggest that parental influences, albeit small relative to peer influences, are associated with fewer instances of monthly alcohol use and related risky behaviors among late-adolescent urban youths.
Descriptors: Drinking, Parent Influence, Correlation, Parent Child Relationship, Parenting Styles, Regression (Statistics), Risk, Health Behavior, Alcohol Abuse, Intention, Urban Youth, Late Adolescents
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Delaware; New Jersey; New York
Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Youth Risk Behavior Survey
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