Owens Timothy J, Shippee Nathan D
Department of Sociology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907-2059, USA.
J Adolesc. 2009 Aug;32(4):763-80. doi: 10.1016/j.adolescence.2008.11.001. Epub 2008 Dec 14.
Does adolescent depressed mood portend increased or decreased drinking? Is frequent drinking positively or negatively associated with emotional well-being? Do the dynamic relations between depression and drinking differ by gender? Using block-recursive structural equation models, we explore the reciprocal short-term effects (within time, t) and the cross-lagged medium-term effects (t +1 year) and long-term effects (t+2 years) of depressed mood and monthly drinking occasions. Data come from the high school waves of the Youth Development Study, a randomly selected panel of 1015 ninth graders followed to 12th grade. We found that for both genders, depressed mood consistently decreased short-term drinking in each grade measured. However, depression increased drinking for both genders in the medium-term but only for girls in the long-term. In the other direction, drinking tended to increase depression in the short-term only among ninth-grade boys and 12th-grade girls. Observed trends and differences in the magnitude of the reciprocal effects vary by gender, with drinking being especially deleterious to emotional well-being for boys early in high school (10th grade) but for girls on the cusp of the post-high school world (12th grade).
青少年的抑郁情绪预示着饮酒量会增加还是减少？频繁饮酒与情绪健康是正相关还是负相关？抑郁与饮酒之间的动态关系是否因性别而异？我们使用分块递归结构方程模型，探究抑郁情绪与每月饮酒次数之间的短期相互影响（在时间t内）、交叉滞后中期影响（t + 1年）和长期影响（t + 2年）。数据来自青少年发展研究的高中阶段调查，该研究随机选取了1015名九年级学生组成样本，跟踪调查至十二年级。我们发现，对于男女两性而言，抑郁情绪在各测量年级均持续减少短期饮酒量。然而，抑郁在中期会增加两性的饮酒量，但在长期仅增加女孩的饮酒量。在另一个方向上，仅在九年级男生和十二年级女生中，饮酒在短期内往往会增加抑郁情绪。观察到的相互影响趋势和程度差异因性别而异，饮酒对高中早期（十年级）的男孩以及高中即将毕业时（十二年级）的女孩的情绪健康尤其有害。
