The changing influences of self-worth and peer deviance on drinking problems in urban American Indian adolescents.
This study explored the changing relations among self-worth, peer deviance, and alcohol-related problems in a sample of 224 urban-dwelling, American Indian adolescents. Data were collected annually at 7 time points to test a proposed mediational model. As expected, peer deviance mediated the relation between low self-worth and alcohol-related problems in younger adolescents; however, this relation did not hold as participants became older. In older adolescents, low self-worth and peer deviance directly and independently contributed to alcohol problems. Possible explanations for and implications of these findings are discussed in terms of developmental changes during adolescence.
Radin
Sandra M
SM
Addictive Behaviors Research Center, University of Washington, Seattle, 98195-1525, USA. sradin@u.washington.edu
Neighbors
Clayton
C
Walker
Patricia Silk
PS
Walker
R Dale
RD
Marlatt
G Alan
GA
Larimer
Mary
M
D000293:Adolescent; D000428:Alcohol Drinking; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007198:Indians, North American / Q000208:ethnology*; D008297:Male; D010379:Peer Group; D012649:Self Concept; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000208:ethnology*; D014505:Urban Population; D014861:Washington / Q000453:epidemiology