title: The effect of pubertal and psychosocial timing on adolescents' alcohol use: what role does alcohol-specific parenting play?
abstract: In scientific literature, early pubertal timing emerges as a risk factor of adolescents' drinking, whereas alcohol-specific rules (the degree to which parents permit their children to consume alcohol in various situations) showed to protect against adolescents' drinking. This study investigated whether alcohol-specific rules mediate and/or moderate the effect that early pubertal and psychosocial timing (personal, relational, socio-institutional) has on adolescents' alcohol use. Mediation and moderation models were tested conducting ordinal logistic structural equation modeling in a cross-sectional sample of 1,893 Dutch adolescents (49% males), aged 13-15 years. Findings showed that early pubertal, relational and socio-institutional timers were at greater risk to initiate alcohol use and for heavy episodic drinking. Alcohol-specific rules more often mediated, rather than moderated, the effect of early timing on alcohol use. Alcohol-specific rules are mostly relaxed when adolescents mature, rather than reinforced, indicating that parents partly facilitate adolescents' drinking.
authors: Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands. Karen.Offermans@maastrichtuniversity.nl
authors: Karen
authors: K
authors: Schelleman-Offermans
authors: Ronald A
authors: RA
authors: Knibbe
authors: Rutger C M E
authors: RC
authors: Engels
authors: William J
authors: WJ
authors: Burk
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior / Q000502:physiology / Q000523:psychology; D000367:Age Factors; D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology*; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D016015:Logistic Models; D008297:Male; D008960:Models, Psychological; D016487:Parenting; D011627:Puberty / Q000523:psychology*; D012307:Risk Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires