Alcohol and Early Marriage: Spouse and Peer Influence

计划在下一个奖项期间，即第五波（W5）的第七周年纪念日，进行两次主要的数据收集。 夫妇，和第六波（W 6）在九周年。1996年被招募到研究中的夫妇被评估为 W5从2003年秋季开始。W5评估将在下一个奖项的前1.5年继续对样本进行 （2005年4月至2006年9月）。W 6评估将于2005年9月开始，并持续到2005年9月。 2008.这些评估将继续关注饮酒伙伴关系、婚姻功能和同伴/家庭网络。 此外，有2至17岁孩子的夫妇将提供有关儿童行为问题的报告， 在这两个评估中的育儿行为。 实质上，我们将继续关注饮酒伙伴关系、婚姻功能和同伴/家庭网络， 我们的分析将继续研究这些领域之间的纵向关系。特别是，我们将测试 关系动机模型对理解丈夫和妻子饮酒的影响，以及 不一致的夫妇为了婚姻功能而喝酒。我们还将进一步测试酒精和婚姻压力应对模型， 暴力，并确定它是否可以适用于其他与酒精有关的婚姻问题。我们将扩展分析 来解决这个样本中三个重要的问题。第一，第七到第九个纪念日是 我们将研究近期和长期饮酒对婚姻解体的影响， 控制与饮酒和离婚有关的其他因素。我们还将检验以下假设： 如果夫妻双方都是酗酒者，离婚的可能性就更小。第二个新出现的重点将是 与父母饮酒有关的儿童。我们将研究饮酒，婚姻压力， 父母的压力，和纵向影响，这对儿童的功能，以及检查是否儿童的行为 问题影响父母饮酒和婚姻冲突。最后，研究表明，许多有工作的成年人， 家庭责任报告说，他们的工作和家庭角色相互重叠，这种工作-家庭冲突 与不良后果有关，包括酗酒或酗酒。在下一个奖项期间，我们将能够 纵向研究这些问题，并将有关同事饮酒的信息整合到家庭/工作模型中 冲突和喝酒。

Two major data collections are planned for the next award period, Wave 5 (W5) at the seventh anniversary for the couples, and Wave 6 (W6) at the ninth anniversary. Couples who were recruitedinto the study in 1996 were assessed for W5 beginning in the Fall of 2003. W5 assessment will continue for the sample for the first 1.5 years of the next award period (April 2005 to September 2006). The W6 assessment willbegin in September 2005, and continue until September 2008. These assessments will continue to focus on drinking partnerships, marital functioning, and peer/familynetworks. In addition, couples with children between the ages of 2 and 17will provide reports on child behavior problems and parenting behavior at both of these assessments. Substantively, we will continue to focus on drinking partnerships, marital functioning, and peer/familynetworks, and our analyses will continue to examine the longitudinal relationship among these domains. In particular, we will test the implications of the relationship motivation model for understanding husband and wife drinking, and the relevance of discrepant couple drinking for marital functioning. We will also further test a stress-coping model for alcohol and marital violence, and determine whether it can be applied to other alcohol-relatedmarital problems. We will extend our analyses to address three issues of emerging importance in this sample. First, the seventh through the ninth anniversaries are critical ones with respect to marital dissolutions and we will examine the impact of recent and chronic drinking on marital dissolution controlling for other factors related to drinking and divorce. We will also test the hypothesis that couples in which both members are heavy drinkers may be less likely to divorce. A second emerging focus will be the importance of children relative to parental alcohol use. We will be examine the interrelationship between drinking, marital stress, and parenting stress, and the longitudinal impact of this on child functioning, as well as to examine whether child behavior problems influenceparental drinking and marital conflict. Finally, research indicates that many employed adults with family responsibilities report that their work and family roles interferewith one another and that this work-familyconflict is associated with adverse outcomes, including heavier or problematic drinking. In the next award period, we will be able to examine these issues longitudinally and integrate information concerning coworker drinking into models of family/work conflict and drinking.