title: Drinking patterns and problems among female children and adolescents: a comparison of abstainers, past users, and current users.
abstract: The sociopsychological factors that underlie drinking behavior among 197 young girls, ages 9 through 17, are explored. Three groups-youthful abstainers, former users, and current users-were interviewed, as were their parents. These comparison groups are contrasted on 110 variables. The relative merits of four competing explanations of youthful drinking behavior-deprivation, personal deficiency, hedonistic peer culture, and family pathology-are assessed.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior; D000428:Alcohol Drinking; D002648:Child; D003415:Crime; D004644:Emotions; D005006:Ethnicity; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010290:Parents; D010379:Peer Group; D012067:Religion; D012907:Smoking; D012920:Social Behavior Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000150:complications; D014481:United States