Armenta Brian E, Hautala Dane S, Whitbeck Les B
Department of Sociology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Dev Psychol. 2015 May;51(5):697-705. doi: 10.1037/a0038978. Epub 2015 Mar 30.
In the present study, we considered the utility of the prototype/willingness model in predicting alcohol use among North-American Indigenous adolescents. Specifically, using longitudinal data, we examined the associations among subjective drinking norms, positive drinker prototypes, drinking expectations (as a proxy of drinking willingness), and drinking behavior among a sample of Indigenous adolescents from ages 12 to 14 years. Using an autoregressive cross-lagged analysis, our results showed that subjective drinking norms and positive drinker prototypes at 12 years of age were associated with increased drinking expectations at 13 years of age, and that greater drinking expectations at 13 years of age were associated with increased drinking behavior at 14 years of age. Our results provide initial evidence that the prototype/willingness model may generalize to Indigenous adolescents, a population that has received little attention within the psychological sciences. Our results also highlight some potential ways in which existing prevention efforts aimed at reducing substance use among Indigenous adolescents may be enhanced.
在本研究中，我们探讨了原型/意愿模型在预测北美原住民青少年饮酒行为方面的效用。具体而言，我们利用纵向数据，考察了12至14岁原住民青少年样本中的主观饮酒规范、积极饮酒者原型、饮酒期望（作为饮酒意愿的替代指标）与饮酒行为之间的关联。通过自回归交叉滞后分析，我们的结果表明，12岁时的主观饮酒规范和积极饮酒者原型与13岁时饮酒期望的增加相关，而13岁时更高的饮酒期望与14岁时饮酒行为的增加相关。我们的结果提供了初步证据，表明原型/意愿模型可能适用于原住民青少年，这是一个在心理学领域很少受到关注的群体。我们的结果还突出了一些潜在的方法，通过这些方法可以加强现有的旨在减少原住民青少年物质使用的预防措施。
