Family Religiosity on Young Adult Alcohol Problems

描述（由申请方提供）：拟定的发育流行病学 研究的重点是导致酒精使用和滥用的途径，以及如何 宗教影响着这些道路。本研究的目的是评估 青少年和成年期宗教信仰的缓冲作用对各种 酒精使用和滥用的风险因素。这些风险因素 包括父母饮酒、家庭不利背景、早期（第一 等级）攻击和害羞-攻击行为，父母监控差，低 教育程度、抑郁、犯罪和失业。分析 将使用来自非洲裔美国人的小组研究数据进行， 芝加哥的伍德劳恩社区。这一组已经评估了三个数据 分数：一年级（1966-67），青春期（1975-76）和青年期 （1992-94年）。人群由非洲人的总队列（N= 1242）组成 美国成年人在1966年第一次学习时，他们在一年级， 伍德劳恩，芝加哥的一个内城区。他们被评估了三次 一年级、三年级、青春期以及最近的1993-94年 在他们年轻的时候。本研究的总体目标是获得一个 理解宗教归属、出席率和 参与，和宗教显着性在酒精使用的发展中发挥作用， 酗酒和酗酒问题）。第一个具体目标侧重于 年轻人的宗教信仰和酒精问题之间的并行关系 成年第二个目的是研究儿童和青少年因素的作用 这些因素可能会影响酒精问题的发展，以及这些因素是如何影响酒精问题的发展的。 可能会缓和或调解宗教的途径，酒精问题。的 第三个目标汇集了前两个目标的发现，以研究如何 儿童、青少年和年轻人的风险和保护因素， 宗教信仰对年轻人酒精问题的影响。 母亲的宗教信仰在一年级和青春期进行测量; 这项研究“儿童”的宗教信仰是在青少年时期测量的， 年轻的成年酒精问题在青春期进行了测量， 成年我们将使用几种不同的方法，包括描述性的 统计患病率、比值比和平均差异，以及多变量 逻辑回归、生存分析和因果建模。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The proposed developmental epidemiological study is focused upon the paths leading to alcohol use and abuse and how religiosity influences these paths. The intent of this study is to assess the buffering effect of religiosity during adolescence and adulthood on a variety of identified risk factors for alcohol use and abuse. These risk factors include parental alcohol use, a background of family disadvantage, early (first grade) aggressive and shy-aggressive behavior, poor parental monitoring, low educational attainment, depression, delinquency, and unemployment. The analysis will be conducted using data from a panel study of African Americans from the Woodlawn community in Chicago. This group has been assessed at three data points: first grade (1966-67), adolescence (1975-76) and young adulthood (1992-94). The population consists of a total cohort (N= 1242) of African American adults first studied in 1966 when they were in first grade in Woodlawn, an inner city neighborhood of Chicago. They were assessed three times in first grade, in third grade, during adolescence and most recently in 1993-94 when they were young adults. The overall aim of this research is to gain an understanding of the role that religious affiliation, attendance and participation, and religious salience play in the development of alcohol use, abuse, and alcoholism problems]. The first specific aim focuses on the concurrent relationships between religiosity and alcohol problems in young adulthood. The second aim examines the role of childhood and adolescent factors which may influence the development of alcohol problems and how these factors may moderate or mediate the pathways of religiosity to alcohol problems. The third aim brings together the findings of the first two aims to examine how childhood, adolescent, and young adult risk and protective factors work with religiosity over the life course to influence young adult alcohol problems. Mothers' religiosity is measured at the time of first grade and adolescence; the study "child's" religiosity is measured during adolescence and again in young adulthood. Alcohol problems were measured during adolescence and again in adulthood. We will use several different approaches, including descriptive statistics of prevalence, odds ratios, and mean differences, and multivariate logistic regression, survival analysis, and causal modeling.