title: Parenting style, religiosity, peer alcohol use, and adolescent heavy drinking.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The purpose of this research was to examine the associations of parenting style, religiosity, and peer alcohol use with alcohol use and heavy drinking.
  
  
  METHODS
  Structural equation modeling was used to estimate direct and indirect associations among 5,419 adolescents ages 12-14 years from the National Longitudinal Study of Youth 1997.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Adolescents whose parents were authoritative were less likely to drink heavily than adolescents who experienced neglectful or indulgent parenting styles. Religiosity was negatively associated with heavy drinking after other relevant variables were controlled for.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Authoritative parenting appears to have both direct and indirect negative associations with the risk of heavy drinking among adolescents. Authoritative parenting, where monitoring and support are above average, and religiosity might help deter adolescents from heavy drinking, even when adolescents experience peer environments where alcohol use is common. Authoritarian parenting, although it was not associated with heavy drinking, was positively associated with alcohol use and peer alcohol use, thus placing adolescents at some risk.
authors.affiliation: Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, Department of Sociology, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah.
authors.forename: John P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Hoffmann
authors.affiliation: Department of Sociology, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah.
authors.forename: Stephen J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Bahr
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology*; D001318:Authoritarianism; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D016487:Parenting / Q000523:psychology*; D010379:Peer Group; D012069:Religion and Psychology