Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health, Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA.
Am J Prev Med. 2010 May;38(5):491-8. doi: 10.1016/j.amepre.2010.01.023.
Sports participation, though offering numerous developmental benefits for youths, has been associated with adolescent alcohol use. Differences also exist between men/boys and women/girls in both sports participation and patterns of alcohol-related behaviors, but there are few longitudinal investigations of this relationship.
This study investigated the relationship between school-based sports participation and alcohol-related behaviors using data from a multiwave national study of adolescent men/boys and women/girls.
Nationally representative data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, collected between 1994 and 2001, were analyzed in 2009 (n=8271). Latent growth modeling, accommodating the complex sampling design, was applied to examine whether participation in school-based sports was associated with initial levels and change in problem alcohol use over three waves of data collection.
After taking into account time-invariant covariates including demographics and other predictors of alcohol use, greater involvement in sports during adolescence was associated with faster average acceleration in problem alcohol use over time among youths who took part in only sports. The findings suggest, however, that the relationship between sports participation and problem alcohol use depends on participation in sports in combination with other activities, but it does not differ between men/boys and women/girls.
Sports may represent an important and efficient context for selective interventions to prevent problem alcohol use and negative consequences of alcohol use among adolescents.
尽管运动对青少年有许多发展益处，但它也与青少年饮酒有关。在运动参与和与酒精相关的行为模式方面，男性/男孩和女性/女孩之间也存在差异，但对这种关系的纵向研究很少。
本研究使用来自一项针对青少年男性/男孩和女性/女孩的多波全国性研究的数据，调查了基于学校的运动参与与与酒精相关的行为之间的关系。
2009 年分析了 1994 年至 2001 年期间收集的全国青少年健康纵向研究的全国代表性数据（n=8271）。应用潜在增长建模，适应复杂的抽样设计，以检查在三个数据收集波次中，参与基于学校的运动是否与问题性饮酒的初始水平和变化相关。
在考虑了包括人口统计学和其他饮酒预测因素在内的时间不变协变量后，与仅参加运动的青少年相比，在青少年时期更多地参与运动与问题性饮酒的平均加速速度更快。然而，研究结果表明，运动参与和问题性饮酒之间的关系取决于运动参与与其他活动的结合，但在男性/男孩和女性/女孩之间没有差异。
运动可能是针对青少年预防问题性饮酒和酒精使用负面影响的选择性干预的重要和有效的环境。
