Gillings School of Global Public Health, Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 29975-7440, USA.
J Abnorm Child Psychol. 2011 Feb;39(2):239-50. doi: 10.1007/s10802-010-9456-4.
The current study examined the role of heavy alcohol use in the developmental process of desistance in physical dating aggression during adolescence. Using longitudinal data spanning grades 8 through 12 we tested the hypotheses that (a) higher levels of early heavy alcohol use would be associated with decreased deceleration from dating aggression during late adolescence and (b) higher levels of heavy alcohol use during time-points in late adolescence would be contemporaneously associated with elevated levels of dating aggression at those same time points. Contrary to expectations, findings indicate that the effects of both early and continuing heavy alcohol use on dating aggression were strong during early adolescence but tended to diminish over time. Unexpectedly, the contemporaneous effects of alcohol use on dating aggression were stronger in the spring than in the fall semesters. Implications for prevention and for understanding developmental relations between the two behaviors are discussed.
本研究考察了重度饮酒在青少年时期的身体约会攻击行为中停止发展过程中的作用。本研究使用了从 8 年级到 12 年级的纵向数据,检验了以下假设:(a)较高水平的早期重度饮酒与青春期晚期约会攻击行为的减速减少有关;(b)在青春期晚期的各个时间点上,较高水平的重度饮酒与同一时间点上的约会攻击行为的升高有关。与预期相反,研究结果表明,早期和持续的重度饮酒对约会攻击行为的影响在青少年早期很强,但随着时间的推移逐渐减弱。出乎意料的是,酒精使用对约会攻击行为的同期影响在春季比秋季学期更强。讨论了这两种行为之间发展关系的预防和理解的意义。