title: The changing influences of self-worth and peer deviance on drinking problems in urban American Indian adolescents.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Addictive Behaviors Research Center, University of Washington, Seattle, 98195-1525, USA. sradin@u.washington.edu
authors.forename: Sandra M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Radin
authors.forename: Clayton
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Neighbors
authors.forename: Patricia Silk
authors.initials: PS
authors.lastname: Walker
authors.forename: R Dale
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Walker
authors.forename: G Alan
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Marlatt
authors.forename: Mary
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Larimer
mesh_terms: 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