ALCOHOL AND EARLY MARRIAGE--SPOUSE AND PEER INFLUENCE

这项建议旨在研究 酒精消费模式和过渡到 婚姻，并由概率发展框架(Zucker， 1993年)。从这个角度来看，饮酒风险的变化超过了发育 过渡既受先前风险状态的影响，也受 作为发展中国家发展转型的函数而出现的变化 个人，在他或她的关系中，在社会环境中。 因此，观察到在婚姻过渡期间饮酒的减少可能 由个人差异因素、关系因素或同行引起的 以及社交网络因素。 在方法上，该项目涉及招募600对夫妇，年龄在18岁到 35岁，为他们的第一次婚姻申请结婚证，以及 在申请结婚证时对这些夫妇进行评估， 婚后12个月和婚后24个月。评估， 这将是相同的丈夫和妻子，将包括衡量 以下实质性领域：(1)饮酒模式和问题；(2) 个体差异因素(例如，酗酒家族史、 社会化，负面影响)；(3)婚姻质量；(4)社会网络 特点。将利用结构方程建模来检验 个体之间的横向关系和纵向关系 差异因素、婚姻和家庭因素以及社会网络因素 丈夫和妻子的酒精使用和问题。它是 预测强调社交网络中介作用的模型 将最好地描述饮酒的变化，尽管个人风险因素和 婚姻质量也可能会影响饮酒。此外，这项研究将 评估这两年的饮酒轨迹是否具有可比性 对于那些以规范的方式经历婚姻过渡的人来说 与那些正在经历过渡的人相比，这些人是由几个非规范性的 路径(晚婚、婚前有子女、 婚前广泛同居)以及婚后是否 为人父母的转变，或其他重大事件和环境 这一发育阶段的共同应激源会进一步影响 酗酒和酗酒问题。

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.