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: 6629502
• 负责人: John E. Donovan
• 金额: $ 72.77万
• 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 2005-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6629502
• 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：（改编自研究者摘要）目前几乎没有 关于酒精使用的流行率或风险因素的可靠信息 几乎所有的研究都是在 初中或更老的样本。然而，关键是要确定为什么 有些孩子开始喝酒，在这么小的年龄，因为关系， 问题饮酒和酒精中毒在以后的生活中，以早期开始饮酒。的 建议的研究重点是确定风险因素， 儿童开始使用酒精，并检查家庭的影响 影响儿童中期人格发展和同伴危险的因素 影响以后饮酒的因素。早期风险特征应特别 有助于预测哪些孩子会进入有问题的饮酒， 他们会进入青春期中后期联系的确定 父母教养方式与人格发展和同伴风险之间的关系 饮酒因素应允许设计更有效的预防措施， 干预措施。 目前的研究集中在两个队列的儿童谁将进展到 青春期前和青春期早期。同时他们 正在从低风险时期进入高风险时期， 开始使用酒精。基线评估将在大多数 孩子们在户外尝试过饮酒。在这个补助金到期之前 在此期间，近一半的老年人将开始饮酒。的 因此，研究定位于观察这些儿童的过渡 实验和更有规律的饮酒模式 一个7波，加速纵向设计将被使用，其中儿童将 每6个月评估一次。队列将包括400名白色和非洲人 基线时有一个8岁或10岁孩子的美国家庭， 随访至11岁和13岁。家庭将随机选择从 大匹兹堡都市区使用目标年龄目录抽样， 随机数字拨号非裔美国家庭将被过度抽样。一个年长 将招募兄弟姐妹（如果可用）。由于同行的重要性， 影响问题行为的启动，并在认识到 如果孩子对同伴行为的看法有问题，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 观察，和朋友自我报告的数据将收集在家里 探访家庭、同伴人格和行为风险因素将被 使用这些多方法数据构建。措施来自问题 儿童社会化研究中的行为理论.