ALCOHOL AND EARLY MARRIAGE--SPOUSE AND PEER INFLUENCE

酗酒和早婚——配偶和同伴的影响

• 批准号: 2682975
• 负责人: KENNETH E LEONARD
• 金额: $ 35.76万
• 依托单位: RESEARCH INSTITUTE ON ADDICTIONS
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1996
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1996-04-01 至 2001-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/2682975
• 关键词: age at marriage; alcoholic beverage consumption; alcoholism /alcohol abuse; behavioral /social science research tag; child rearing; clinical research; environmental stressor; family structure /dynamics; human subject; interpersonal relations; marriage /marital status; mental health epidemiology; psychological models; social support network

This proposal is designed to examine the continuity/discontinuity of alcohol consumption patterns and alcohol problems over the transition to marriage and is guided by a probabilistic-developmental framework (Zucker, 1993). From this perspective, changes in drinking risk over developmental transitions are influenced by both the preceding risk status as well as changes that arise as a function of the developmental transition in the individual, in his or her relationships, and in the social environment. Thus, observed reductions in drinking over the marital transition could arise from individual difference factors, relationship factors, or peer and social network factors. Methodologically, the project involves recruiting 600 couples, age 18 to 35, as they apply for their marriage license for their first marriage, and assessing these couples at the time they apply for their marriage license, at 12 months postmarriage, and at 24 months postmarriage. The assessment, which will be identical for husband and wife, will include measures of the following substantive domains: (1) Drinking Patterns and Problems; (2) Individual Difference Factors (i.e., Family History of Alcoholism, Socialization, Negative Affect); (3) Marital Quality; (4) Social Network Characteristics. Structural equation modeling will be utilized to examine both the cross-sectional and the longitudinal relationship of individual difference factors, marital and family factors, and social network factors to the alcohol use and problems of both husbands and wives. It is predicted that a model emphasizing the mediational role of social networks will best describe changes in drinking though individual risk factors and marital quality may also impact drinking. In addition, the study will assess whether the drinking trajectories over the two years are comparable for those going through the marital transition in a normative fashion versus those going through the transition by one of several nonnormative paths (late first marriage, presence of children prior to marriage, extensive cohabitation prior to marriage) and whether subsequent transitions to parenthood, or other major events and environmental stressors common to this developmental period, have a further impact on drinking and drinking problems.

本提案旨在考察……的连续性/非连续性