School of Family Life, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, USA.
T. Denny Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA.
J Youth Adolesc. 2018 Oct;47(10):2206-2219. doi: 10.1007/s10964-018-0874-x. Epub 2018 Jun 15.
Adolescent alcohol use is related to disinhibition traits and family environments. However, research is scarce on whether these factors predict alcohol use trajectories distally, from early adolescence into early adulthood. We examined whether sensation seeking and parenting environments in early adolescence predicted adolescents' alcohol use trajectories proximally (middle-adolescence) and distally (early adulthood). Using four waves of data from 345 adolescents (51.3% female; 80% white) and their primary caregivers, we estimated adolescents' alcohol use trajectories and examined variability in these by sensation seeking and parental control. The findings revealed distal, positive associations between sensation seeking and alcohol use; and negative, proximal associations between parental control and alcohol use. Also proximally, there was a significant interaction between sensation seeking and parental control. We discuss implications for theory and practice.
青少年饮酒与抑制控制特质和家庭环境有关。然而，关于这些因素是否能预测青少年从早期进入成年早期的饮酒轨迹的研究还很少。我们研究了青少年早期的感觉寻求和养育环境是否能预测青少年近期（青春期中期）和远期（成年早期）的饮酒轨迹。我们利用 345 名青少年（51.3%为女性；80%为白人）及其主要照顾者的四波数据，估计了青少年的饮酒轨迹，并通过感觉寻求和父母控制来考察这些轨迹的变异性。研究结果显示，感觉寻求与饮酒之间存在远距离的正相关关系；而父母控制与饮酒之间则存在负相关关系。此外，在近期，感觉寻求和父母控制之间存在显著的交互作用。我们讨论了这对理论和实践的意义。
