Age of Alcohol Initiation Matters: Examining Gender Differences in the Recency and Frequency of Alcohol Use across Adolescence Using a Sample of Impoverished Minority Adolescents

Autor/inn/en	Tomek, Sara; Bolland, Kathleen A.; Bolland, John M.; Hooper, Lisa M.; Church, Wesley T., II; Bolland, Anneliese C.
Titel	Age of Alcohol Initiation Matters: Examining Gender Differences in the Recency and Frequency of Alcohol Use across Adolescence Using a Sample of Impoverished Minority Adolescents
Quelle	In: Youth & Society, 51 (2019) 1, S.120-145 (26 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0044-118X
DOI	10.1177/0044118X16662749
Schlagwörter	Drinking; Adolescents; Low Income Groups; Minority Groups; Age Differences; Health Behavior; Gender Differences; At Risk Persons; Socioeconomic Status; Racial Differences; Ethnicity; Alabama + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Trinken; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Ethnische Minderheit; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Health behaviour; Gesundheitsverhalten; Geschlechterkonflikt; Risikogruppe; Socio-economic status; Sozioökonomischer Status; Rassenunterschied; Ethnizität
Abstract	While previous research has shown alcohol use to increase developmentally throughout adolescence, the age of alcohol initiation has rarely been incorporated into developmental trajectories. Simultaneous estimation of the effects of early alcohol initiation was made in relation to the recency and frequency of alcohol use utilizing a sample of 1,209 low-income, minority adolescents initiating alcohol between 12 and 18. Significant effects of both age of alcohol initiation and gender were found. Initial alcohol use was higher the later the adolescent initiated alcohol use. Following initiation, trajectories of the recency and frequency of alcohol use for female adolescents increased more rapidly the earlier they initiate alcohol use, while trajectories for male adolescents increased independent of their year of initiation. Modeling age of initiation using piecewise growth models provided more informative results regarding early alcohol initiation effects as compared to traditional longitudinal model. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01