Dearfield Craig T
Akeso Consulting, 9636 Masterworks Dr., Vienna, VA 22181 United States.
J Child Adolesc Subst Abuse. 2017;26(4):303-313. doi: 10.1080/1067828X.2017.1305932. Epub 2017 Apr 28.
This study tests a multilevel model of factors that affect adolescents' decisions to use alcohol. Hierarchical linear modeling was used to estimate the variance in alcohol use accounted for by the influences of individual, social, and neighborhood factors. Social factors are significant predictors of alcohol use across several models tested, while selected neighborhood factors were generally not. Results indicate that social and community contexts have important effects on adolescent alcohol use, and that social influences were more significant predictors of alcohol use than neighborhood factors for this sample.
本研究测试了一个影响青少年饮酒决策的多水平因素模型。采用分层线性模型来估计个体、社会和邻里因素的影响所导致的饮酒行为差异。在多个测试模型中,社会因素是饮酒行为的显著预测指标,而所选的邻里因素通常不是。结果表明,社会和社区环境对青少年饮酒行为有重要影响,并且对于该样本而言,社会影响比邻里因素是更显著的饮酒行为预测指标。