FAMILY AND PEER RISK FACTORS FOR PREADOLESCENT DRINKING

青春期前饮酒的家庭和同伴风险因素

• 批准号: 6744705
• 负责人: John E. Donovan
• 金额: $ 45.84万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2000
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2000-05-01 至 2005-09-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6744705
• 关键词: African American; adolescence (12-20); alcoholic beverage consumption; alcoholism /alcohol abuse; behavioral /social science research tag; clinical research; disease /disorder proneness /risk; family structure /dynamics; human subject; interview; middle childhood (6-11); peer group; psychometrics; socializations; substance abuse epidemiology; substance abuse related behavior

DESCRIPTION: (adapted from Investigator's abstract) There is currently little solid information on either the prevalence or the risk factors for alcohol use among children in the U.S. Nearly all of the research has been carried out on junior high school or older samples. It is critical, however, to determine why some children begin to drink at such young ages because of the relation of problem drinking and alcoholism in later life to earlier onset of drinking. The proposed research is focused on determination of the risk factors for the childhood initiation of alcohol use, and examination of the influence of family factors in middle childhood on the development of personality and peer risk factors for later alcohol use. Early risk characteristics should be especially useful for predicting which children will move into problematic drinking as they move into middle and late adolescence. Determination of the linkages between parenting practices and the development of personality and peer risk factors foe drinking should permit the design of more effective preventive interventions. The present research focuses on two cohorts of children who will progress into preadolescence and early adolescence during this study. At the same time, they are moving from a period of low risk into a period of high risk for the initiation of alcohol use. The baseline assessments will occur before most of the children have tried alcohol outside the home. By the end of this grant period, nearly half of the older cohort will have initiated alcohol use. The research is therefore positioned to observe the transition of these children into experimentation and more regular patterns of drinking. A 7-wave, accelerated longitudinal design will be used in which children will be assessed every 6 months. Cohorts will consist of 400 White and African American families with a child aged 8 or 10 at baseline, and who will be followed up to ages 11 and 13. Families will be randomly selected from the greater Pittsburgh metropolitan area using targeted-age directory sampling and random digit dialing. African-American families will be over-sampled. An older sibling will be recruited (if available). Due to the importance of peer influence on the initiation of problem behavior, and in recognition of the problems with child perceptions of peer behavior, tow close friends will also be recruited for each participating child. Interviews, family interaction observations, and friend self-reported data will be collected during home visits. Family, peer personality, and behavioral risk factors will be constituted using these multimethod data. Measures are drawn from Problem Behavior Theory as augmented for the study of childhood socialization.

描述：（改编自研究者的摘要）目前几乎没有 有关饮酒流行率或危险因素的可靠信息 几乎所有的研究都是针对美国儿童进行的 初中或更老的样本。然而，确定原因至关重要 有些孩子在很小的时候就开始喝酒，因为 晚年饮酒和酗酒问题到较早开始饮酒。这 拟议的研究重点是确定风险因素 童年开始饮酒，并检查家庭的影响 童年中期影响人格发展和同伴风险的因素 以后饮酒的因素。早期风险特征应特别 对于预测哪些儿童将陷入酗酒问题很有用 他们进入青春期中后期。联系的确定 养育方式与人格发展和同伴风险之间的关系 饮酒的因素应允许设计更有效的预防措施 干预措施。 目前的研究重点关注两组将进入 本研究期间的青春期前和青春期早期。与此同时，他们 正在从低风险时期进入高风险时期 开始饮酒。基线评估将在大多数之前进行 孩子们尝试过在外面喝酒。到本次补助金结束时 在此期间，近一半的老年人会开始饮酒。这 因此，研究的目的是观察这些儿童的转变 进行实验和更规律的饮酒方式。 将采用 7 波加速纵向设计，让孩子们 每 6 个月进行一次评估。队列将由 400 名白人和非洲人组成 基线时有 8 岁或 10 岁孩子的美国家庭，以及谁将成为 随访至 11 岁和 13 岁。家庭将从 使用目标年龄目录抽样和大匹兹堡都会区 随机数字拨号。非裔美国家庭将被过度抽样。一个年纪较大的 将招募兄弟姐妹（如果有）。由于同伴的重要性 对问题行为开始的影响，并认识到 孩子对同伴行为的看法存在问题，两个亲密的朋友也会 为每个参与的孩子招募。访谈、家庭互动 在家期间将收集观察结果和朋友自我报告的数据 访问。家庭、同伴性格和行为风险因素将 使用这些多方法数据构成。措施源自问题 行为理论作为儿童社会化研究的补充。