TY - JOUR
T1 - Pathways to adolescent alcohol use
T2 - Potential mechanisms of parent influence
AU - Sieving, Renee E
AU - Maruyama, Geoffrey M
AU - Williams, Carolyn L.
AU - Perry, Cheryl L.
PY - 2000
Y1 - 2000
N2 - The purpose of this study was to clarify parents' role in the initiation of alcohol use of young adolescents. Subjects included 413 adolescent-parent dyads in which the youth had not begun drinking at the end of 6th grade. All dyads were participants in Project Northland (PN), an adolescent alcohol use prevention trial. A proposed etiologic model including parent norms related to underage drinking, household alcohol-related problems, family problems, and potential mediators of parent influence was tested using structural equation modeling techniques. To explore model differences between intervention conditions, separate models were estimated for intervention and reference samples. Among the parent constructs modeled, parent norms around underage drinking exhibited the strongest relationships with 7th- and 8th-grade alcohol use. Parent norms were directly related to adolescents' alcohol-related cognitions, and thereby had a significant indirect relationship with teenagers' alcohol use. No significant differences were found between intervention and reference groups in model-specified pathways to alcohol use.
AB - The purpose of this study was to clarify parents' role in the initiation of alcohol use of young adolescents. Subjects included 413 adolescent-parent dyads in which the youth had not begun drinking at the end of 6th grade. All dyads were participants in Project Northland (PN), an adolescent alcohol use prevention trial. A proposed etiologic model including parent norms related to underage drinking, household alcohol-related problems, family problems, and potential mediators of parent influence was tested using structural equation modeling techniques. To explore model differences between intervention conditions, separate models were estimated for intervention and reference samples. Among the parent constructs modeled, parent norms around underage drinking exhibited the strongest relationships with 7th- and 8th-grade alcohol use. Parent norms were directly related to adolescents' alcohol-related cognitions, and thereby had a significant indirect relationship with teenagers' alcohol use. No significant differences were found between intervention and reference groups in model-specified pathways to alcohol use.
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U2 - 10.1207/SJRA1004_06
DO - 10.1207/SJRA1004_06
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0034557851
SN - 1050-8392
VL - 10
SP - 489
EP - 514
JO - Journal of Research on Adolescence
JF - Journal of Research on Adolescence
IS - 4
ER -