Sex, temperament, and family context: how the interaction of early factors differentially predict adolescent alcohol use and are mediated by proximal adolescent factors.
Abstract
Adolescent alcohol use is common and has serious immediate and long-term ramifications.
While concurrent individual and context factors are robustly associated with adolescent
alcohol use, the influence of early childhood factors, particularly in interaction
with child sex, are less clear. Using a prospective community sample of 362 (190 girls),
this study investigated sex differences in the joint influence of distal childhood
and proximal adolescent factors on Grade 10 alcohol use. All risk factors and two-way
early individual-by-context interactions, and interactions of each of these with child
sex, were entered into the initial regression. Significant sex interactions prompted
the use of separate models for girls and boys. In addition to the identification of
early (family socioeconomic status, authoritative parenting style) and proximal adolescent
(mental health symptoms, deviant friends) risk factors for both girls and boys, results
highlighted important sex differences. In particular, girls with higher alcohol consumption
at Grade 10 were distinguished by the interaction of early temperamental disinhibition
and exposure to parental stress; boys with higher alcohol consumption at Grade 10
were distinguished primarily by early temperamental negative affect. Results have
implications for the timing and type of interventions offered to adolescents.
Type
Journal articleSubject
AdolescentAdolescent Behavior
Alcohol Drinking
Alcoholism
Analysis of Variance
Family
Female
Humans
Male
Mental Health
Models, Psychological
Parent-Child Relations
Peer Group
Principal Component Analysis
Regression Analysis
Risk Factors
Sex Factors
Sexual Behavior
Stress, Psychological
Surveys and Questionnaires
Temperament
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https://hdl.handle.net/10161/13852Published Version (Please cite this version)
10.1037/a0022349Publication Info
Burk, Linnea R; Armstrong, Jeffrey M; Goldsmith, H Hill; Klein, Marjorie H; Strauman,
Timothy J; Costanzo, Phillip; & Essex, Marilyn J (2011). Sex, temperament, and family context: how the interaction of early factors differentially
predict adolescent alcohol use and are mediated by proximal adolescent factors. Psychol Addict Behav, 25(1). pp. 1-15. 10.1037/a0022349. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/13852.This is constructed from limited available data and may be imprecise. To cite this
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Philip R. Costanzo
Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Neuroscience
Research Interests: Research interests include (1) The development of children's ideas
and beliefs about the social environment. This includes an interest in the underlying
cognitive processes that mediate social reasoning skills, the relationship between
parental beliefs and values and children's social perceptions social competence and
social rule acquisition and its relationship to social conformity. (2) The relationships
between adult values and motivations and depressive
Timothy J. Strauman
Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience
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