Family Religiosity on Young Adult Alcohol Problems

描述(由申请人提供)：建议的发育流行病学 研究的重点是导致饮酒和滥用酒精的途径以及如何 宗教信仰影响着这些道路。这项研究的目的是评估 青春期和成年期宗教信仰对品种的缓冲效应 确定酒精使用和滥用的风险因素。这些风险因素 包括父母饮酒、家庭劣势背景、早年(第一 年级)攻击性和害羞-攻击性行为，父母监督不力，低 教育程度、抑郁、犯罪和失业。分析 将使用来自非裔美国人小组研究的数据进行 芝加哥的伍德劳恩社区。对这组人进行了三项数据评估 得分：一年级(1966-67)、青春期(1975-76)和青壮年 (1992-94)。人口由非洲人总队列(N=1242)组成 美国成年人第一次学习是在1966年，当时他们还在上一年级。 伍德劳恩，芝加哥市中心的一个社区。他们被评估了三次 一年级、三年级、青春期和最近的1993-94年 当他们还是年轻人的时候。这项研究的总体目标是获得一个 对宗教信仰、出席和 参与和宗教意识在酒精使用的发展中扮演着重要角色， 虐待和酗酒问题]。第一个具体目标集中在 青少年的宗教信仰与酒精问题的同时关系 成人期。第二个目标是研究儿童和青少年因素的作用 哪些因素可能影响酒精问题的发展，以及这些因素是如何 可能会缓和或调解对酒精问题的宗教信仰。这个 第三个目标综合了前两个目标的发现，以检查如何 儿童、青少年和青壮年的风险和保护因素与 对生命过程的宗教信仰影响年轻人的酒精问题。 母亲的宗教信仰是在一年级和青春期时测量的； 这项研究是在青春期测量儿童的宗教信仰，并在 青壮年。酒精问题在青春期被测量，并在 成人期。我们将使用几种不同的方法，包括描述性 患病率、优势比、平均数差异和多变量的统计 Logistic回归、生存分析和因果模型。

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.