Sex - Specific Parental Behaviors and Attitudes as
Predictors of Alcohol Use and Alcohol - Related Consequences Among Ninth Grade Students.
Childhood and adolescent
predictors of alcohol use and problems in adolescence and adulthood in the National Child Development Study
This study compared movie alcohol and alcohol marketing exposures with family factors and other variables as
predictors of alcohol use onset separately from transition to binge drinking.
Not exact matches
In fact, the researchers found that posting about
alcohol use on social media was actually a stronger
predictor of alcohol problems than
alcohol use was.
Research from North Carolina State University and Ohio University finds that having an «
alcohol identity» puts college students at greater risk
of having drinking problems — and that posting about
alcohol use on social media sites is actually a stronger
predictor of alcohol problems than having a drink.
Most
alcohol use among young people occurs in a social context, and peer substance
use has long been established as an important
predictor of alcohol and other substance
use among youngsters.
Baseline drinking status (ever vs never tried
alcohol) did not predict attrition, but to account for attrition bias related to other variables, estimation was carried out after multiple imputation
using the standard missing at random assumption (ie, missing data are assumed missing at random conditional on observed
predictors included in the model).27 The imputation model included all the
predictors in the
alcohol models plus a number
of auxiliary variables that were not
of direct theoretical interest but were nonetheless predictive
of missingness so as to improve the quality
of the imputations and make the missing at random assumption more plausible.28
Predictors were movie
alcohol exposure (MAE), ownership
of alcohol - branded merchandise and characteristics
of the family (parental
alcohol use, home availability
of alcohol and parenting).
Evidence suggests that media portrayals
of tobacco and
alcohol use are important
predictors of adolescent smoking and drinking.
The analyses also included age, race / ethnicity (three binary variables for Black, Hispanic and other ethnicity, coded with Whites as the reference group), gender, household income and parental education, media - viewing habits — hours watching television on a school day and how often the participant viewed movies together with his / her parents — and receptivity to
alcohol marketing (based on whether or not the adolescent owned
alcohol - branded merchandise at waves 2 — 4).31 Family
predictors included perceived inhome availability
of alcohol, subject - reported parental
alcohol use (assessed at the 16 M survey and assumed to be invariant) and perceptions
of authoritative parenting (α = 0.80).32 Other covariates included school performance, extracurricular participation, number
of friends who
used alcohol, weekly spending money, sensation seeking (4 - wave Cronbach's α range = 0.57 — 0.62) 33 and rebelliousness (0.71 — 0.76).34 All survey items are listed in table S1.
Fact:» [O] ur findings indicate that the primary
predictors of early intercourse among European American, predominantly rural teenagers are age, opportunity (steady dating), sexually permissive attitudes, association with delinquent peers, and
alcohol use.
Limitations include attrition, missing data,
use of subjects form a single runaway shelter, adolescents were substance abusing, and family relationships and
predictors associated with future runaway and homeless episodes might differ among those who do not abuse
alcohol and / or drugs.
Finally, because negative marital quality may predict increased
alcohol use rather than the reverse, we estimated an APIM in which actor negative marital quality, partner negative marital quality, gender, and all possible two - way and three - way interactions were included as
predictors of average drinks per week in Wave 2, controlling for average drinks per week in Wave 1.
The analytic sample included 4,864 married individuals (in 2,767 couples) who had complete data on all
predictors (own and spouse reports
of alcohol use and negative quality in Wave 1) and covariates for Wave 1, as well as their own reports
of negative marital quality in Wave 2.
At the age
of 17.5, parents» reports
of inattentiveness and hyperactivity were significant
predictors for frequent
alcohol use in both sexes, but they were more predictive
of frequent
alcohol and illicit drug
use in girls.
Although the proposed internalizing x externalizing interaction was also not supported as a
predictor of growth in amount
of use for users (frequency
of marijuana
use and quantity x frequency
of alcohol use), there was evidence for internalizing symptoms as a protective first - order effect on the intercepts
of these outcomes.
Predictors of aggression at school: The effect
of alcohol - related
alcohol use.
Parental
Predictors of Adolescent
Alcohol Use and
Alcohol - Related Consequences.