Title
Change in Adolescents' Alcohol-Use Patterns, from Non-Drinking to Non-Heavy Drinking or Heavy Drinking
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
10-1-2015
Abstract
This study examined risk and protective factors at work when adolescents change from a non-drinking alcohol-use pattern to either non-heavy drinking or heavy drinking. Using a sample of 1,725 non-drinkers extracted from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health, we conducted multinomial logistic regression and found that likelihood of change from non-drinking to non-heavy drinking was associated positively with safe neighborhood, female, peers' drinking, emotional maltreatment, and delinquent behaviors. We found a negative association between such likelihood and being African American. We found that likelihood of change from non-drinking to heavy drinking was associated positively with peers' drinking, depressive feelings, drug use, and repeating a grade(s) at school. We found a negative association between such likelihood and having a married mother, being African American or some other non-Hispanic minority ethnicity, and maternal supervision. Implications for intervention and future research are discussed.
DOI
10.1177/0022042615604013
MSU Digital Commons Citation
Cheng, Tyrone and Lo, Celia C., "Change in Adolescents' Alcohol-Use Patterns, from Non-Drinking to Non-Heavy Drinking or Heavy Drinking" (2015). Department of Social Work and Child Advocacy Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works. 20.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/social-work-and-child-advocacy-facpubs/20