Are the Effects of Early Pubertal Timing on the Initiation of Weekly Alcohol Use Mediated by Peers and/or Parents? A Longitudinal Study

Autor/inn/en	Schelleman-Offermans, Karen; Knibbe, Ronald A.; Kuntsche, Emmanuel
Titel	Are the Effects of Early Pubertal Timing on the Initiation of Weekly Alcohol Use Mediated by Peers and/or Parents? A Longitudinal Study
Quelle	In: Developmental Psychology, 49 (2013) 7, S.1277-1285 (9 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0012-1649
DOI	10.1037/a0029880
Schlagwörter	Longitudinal Studies; Puberty; Drinking; Child Rearing; Parenting Styles; Peer Influence; At Risk Persons; Attitude Measures; Social Environment; Environmental Influences; Parent Influence; Foreign Countries; Correlation; Hypothesis Testing; Adolescents; Likert Scales; Health Behavior; Age Differences; Gender Differences; Questionnaires; Statistical Analysis; Netherlands + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Pubertät; Trinken; Kindererziehung; Risikogruppe; Soziales Umfeld; Environmental influence; Umwelteinfluss; Ausland; Korrelation; Hypothesenprüfung; Hypothesentest; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Likert-Skala; Health behaviour; Gesundheitsverhalten; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Geschlechterkonflikt; Fragebogen; Statistische Analyse; Niederlande
Abstract	We investigated whether the link between early pubertal timing and initiation of weekly alcohol use is mediated by changes in perceived parental alcohol-specific rule setting and changes in perceived proportion of drinkers in the peer group. Longitudinal data including 3 annual waves were used to estimate the hazard for adolescents to initiate drinking alcohol using Cox proportional hazard structural equation models in 1,286 Dutch adolescents (50.2% boys) 13-14 years old at baseline in 2008. Early pubertal timing increased the risk to initiate weekly alcohol use. However, this risk was entirely mediated by a large increase in the perceived proportion of drinkers in the peer group and a large decrease in the frequency of perceived alcohol-specific rules for early pubertal timers within a period of 1 year. There is no direct risk for early pubertal timers to initiate weekly drinking per se but an indirect one via changes in their social environments, that is, a large increase in the perceived proportion of drinkers in their peer group and parents becoming more lenient in their alcohol-specific rule setting. It is important to motivate parents not to relax their alcohol-specific rule setting over time, particularly parents of early pubertal timers. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01