Department of Medical and Clinical Psychology, Uniformed Services University, 4301 Jones Bridge Rd, Bethesda, MD, 20814, USA; The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, 6720A Rockledge Dr, Bethesda, MD, 20817, USA.
Department of Medical and Clinical Psychology, Uniformed Services University, 4301 Jones Bridge Rd, Bethesda, MD, 20814, USA.
Drug Alcohol Depend. 2021 Apr 1;221:108624. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2021.108624. Epub 2021 Feb 16.
Underage drinking is a serious societal concern, yet relatively little is known about child sipping of alcohol and its relation to beliefs about alcohol. The current study aimed to (1) examine the contexts in which the first sip of alcohol occurs (e.g., type of alcohol, who provided sip, sip offered or taken without permission); (2) examine the association between sipping and alcohol expectancies; and (3) explore how different contexts of sipping are related to alcohol expectancies. We expected to find that children who had sipped alcohol would have increased positive expectancies and reduced negative expectancies compared to children who had never sipped alcohol.
Data were derived from the 2.0 release of the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study, a longitudinal study of children in the United States. We utilized data from 4,842 children ages 9-11; 52% were male, 60% were White, 19% were Hispanic/Latinx, and 9% were Black/African American.
We found that 22% of the sample had sipped alcohol. Children reported sipping beer most frequently, and the drink most often belonged to the child's father. We found that children who had sipped had higher positive alcohol expectancies than children who had not while accounting for variables related to alcohol expectancies. Child sipping was not significantly associated with negative expectancies and the context of the first sip of alcohol was not significantly associated with positive and negative expectancies.
Providing sips of alcohol to children is associated with them having more favorable expectations about drinking.
未成年人饮酒是一个严重的社会问题，但人们对儿童抿酒及其与饮酒观念的关系知之甚少。本研究旨在：(1) 考察首次抿酒的情境(例如，饮酒类型、提供抿酒者、未经许可而提供或抿酒)；(2) 考察抿酒与酒精期望之间的关联；(3) 探索不同抿酒情境与酒精期望之间的关系。我们预计，与从未抿过酒的儿童相比，抿过酒的儿童会有更高的积极期望和更低的消极期望。
数据来源于美国儿童青少年大脑认知发展纵向研究（ABCD）的 2.0 版本。我们利用了来自 4842 名 9-11 岁儿童的数据；其中 52%为男性，60%为白人，19%为西班牙裔/拉丁裔，9%为黑人/非裔美国人。
我们发现，22%的样本抿过酒。儿童最常报告抿啤酒，而这些酒最常属于孩子的父亲。我们发现，与未抿过酒的儿童相比，抿过酒的儿童有更高的积极酒精期望，同时考虑到与酒精期望相关的变量。儿童抿酒与消极期望并无显著关联，首次抿酒的情境与积极和消极期望也无显著关联。
向儿童提供抿酒与他们对饮酒的期望更有利有关。
