Latino and European American early adolescents' exposure to music with substance-use references: examining parent-child communication as a moderator.
This study hypothesized that frequent exposure to and attention to music with substance-use references would be indirectly related to alcohol, cigarette, or marijuana use through pro-substance-use beliefs (e.g., norms, outcome expectancies, and refusal efficacy). Parent-child communication, however, would attenuate such associations, which would differ by ethnicity. Multigroup mediation and moderation analyses were conducted, using cross-sectional survey data from 253 Latino and 308 European American 6th-8th grades students. For Latino and European American early adolescents, best-friend-injunctive norms and weak refusal efficacy were significant mediators, but not positive outcome expectancies. Descriptive norms were a significant mediator, but only for European American early adolescents. Although targeted parent-child communication and parental mediation did not moderate the associations between the music-exposure variables and the pro-substance-use beliefs variables, targeted parent-child communication attenuated the association between listening to favorite songs and alcohol consumption. Parental mediation attenuated the association between attention to music and alcohol consumption.
Department of Communication, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States. Electronic address: jakam@illinois.edu.
Jennifer A
JA
Kam
Department of Communication, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States.
Ningxin
N
Wang
Department of Communication, Saint Vincent College, United States.
Jessica
J
Harvey
D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior / Q000208:ethnology*; D002648:Child; D003142:Communication; D005260:Female; D006630:Hispanic or Latino; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009146:Music; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D011582:Psychological Theory; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000208:ethnology; D014481:United States; D044465:White People
Latino; Music; Parent–child communication; Social cognitive theory; Substance use; Theory of planned behavior