Age of Drinking Initiation as a Mediator of the Relationship between Sensation Seeking and Heavy Drinking among High School Seniors

Autor/inn/en	Doumas, Diana M.; Turrisi, Rob; Miller, Raissa; Esp, Susan; Flay, Brian
Titel	Age of Drinking Initiation as a Mediator of the Relationship between Sensation Seeking and Heavy Drinking among High School Seniors
Quelle	In: Journal of Child & Adolescent Substance Abuse, 28 (2019) 1, S.32-38 (7 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1067-828X
DOI	10.1080/1067828X.2018.1561579
Schlagwörter	Age Differences; Drinking; Alcohol Abuse; High School Seniors; At Risk Persons; Correlation; Student Characteristics + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Trinken; Risikogruppe; Korrelation
Abstract	Sensation seeking has been identified as a significant risk factor for adolescent alcohol use. Little is known, however, about the process by which sensation seeking impacts heavy alcohol use. The current study used structural equation modeling (SEM) to examine the relationships among sensation seeking, age of drinking initiation, and heavy alcohol use in a sample of high school seniors (N = 221). Results support age of drinking initiation as a mediator of the relationship between sensation seeking and heavy alcohol use. Implications include providing personality-targeted prevention to adolescents who display sensation-seeking traits to delay drinking initiation among these students. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01