Brooks-Russell Ashley, Simons-Morton Bruce, Haynie Denise, Farhat Tilda, Wang Jing
Prevention Research Branch, Division of Epidemiology Statistics, and Prevention Research, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, 6100 Executive Blvd Room 7B13, Bethesda, MD, 20892-7510, USA,
Prev Sci. 2014 Aug;15(4):497-505. doi: 10.1007/s11121-013-0391-9.
Descriptive norms are consistently found to predict adolescent alcohol use but less is known about the factors that predict descriptive norms. The objective of this study is to test if drinking with peers predicts later alcohol consumption and if this relationship is mediated by a change in the descriptive norms of peer alcohol use. Data are from a nationally representative cohort of high school students surveyed in the 10th and 11th grade (N = 2,162). Structural equation modeling was used to test a mediation model of the relationship between drinking with peers (T1) on later alcohol use (T2) and mediation of the relationship by descriptive norms (T2). Descriptive norms significantly mediated the relationship between drinking with peers and alcohol use for both males and females with a somewhat larger effect for males compared to females. These results support a continued focus on the development and evaluation of interventions to alter descriptive norms of alcohol use.
描述性规范一直被发现能够预测青少年的饮酒行为,但对于预测描述性规范的因素却知之甚少。本研究的目的是检验与同龄人一起饮酒是否能预测日后的酒精消费,以及这种关系是否由同龄人饮酒描述性规范的变化所介导。数据来自于对10年级和11年级高中生进行的具有全国代表性的队列研究(N = 2162)。采用结构方程模型来检验同龄人饮酒(T1)与日后酒精使用(T2)之间关系的中介模型,以及描述性规范(T2)对该关系的中介作用。描述性规范显著介导了男性和女性与同龄人饮酒和酒精使用之间的关系,男性的效应略大于女性。这些结果支持持续关注改变酒精使用描述性规范的干预措施的开发和评估。