Thomsen Steven R, Rekve Dag
Department of Communication, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah 84602-2501, USA.
Int J Adolesc Med Health. 2006 Jan-Mar;18(1):123-31. doi: 10.1515/ijamh.2006.18.1.123.
This study examines the relative contribution of exposure to entertainment and music magazines on binge drinking among a group of teenagers under the supervision of a juvenile court system in a medium-sized western United States community. Despite having a large proportion of adolescent readers, entertainment and music magazines typically include a substantial number of advertisements for alcoholic beverages in each issue. Data were collected via a self-report questionnaire administered to 342 juvenile offenders (ages 12-18 years). Three-quarters of our respondents reported they have used alcohol and about 37% indicated they were binge drinkers. As anticipated, binge drinkers were more frequent readers of entertainment and music magazines than non-binge drinkers. Binge drinkers also estimated that larger portions of their classmates used alcohol and would be more accepting of regular drinking than non-binge drinkers. Results of a multivariate logistic regression analysis to predict whether our subjects typically consumed five or more drinks during a drinking episode indicated that perceived ease of access, age, gender, the number of best friends who drink, parental drinking (inversely), and entertainment and music magazine reading frequency were significant predictors of binge drinking. We conclude that the predictive influence entertainment and music magazine reading frequency may actually reflect a selectivity bias among a segment of the youth sub-culture already inclined toward alcohol use and abuse. We recommend that entertainment and music magazine reading should be considered only within the constellation of other risk factors when assessing risk for potential alcohol abuse.
本研究考察了在美国西部一个中等规模社区的少年法庭系统监管下的一群青少年中，接触娱乐和音乐杂志对酗酒的相对影响。尽管娱乐和音乐杂志拥有很大比例的青少年读者，但每期杂志通常都包含大量酒精饮料广告。通过对342名少年犯（年龄在12至18岁之间）进行自我报告问卷调查收集数据。四分之三的受访者表示他们饮酒，约37%的人表示他们是酗酒者。正如预期的那样，酗酒者比非酗酒者更经常阅读娱乐和音乐杂志。酗酒者还估计，他们的同学中饮酒的比例更高，而且比起非酗酒者，他们更容易接受经常饮酒。一项多变量逻辑回归分析的结果预测了我们的研究对象在一次饮酒过程中是否通常饮用五杯或更多酒，结果表明，感知到的获取酒精的难易程度、年龄、性别、饮酒的最好朋友数量、父母饮酒情况（呈反比）以及娱乐和音乐杂志阅读频率是酗酒的显著预测因素。我们得出结论，娱乐和音乐杂志阅读频率的预测影响可能实际上反映了一部分已经倾向于酗酒和滥用酒精的青年亚文化群体中的选择性偏差。我们建议，在评估潜在酒精滥用风险时，应仅在其他风险因素的背景下考虑娱乐和音乐杂志阅读情况。
