Department of Psychology, Park Hall. University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo, NY 14260, United States.
Department of Psychology, Park Hall. University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo, NY 14260, United States.
Addict Behav. 2022 Mar;126:107174. doi: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2021.107174. Epub 2021 Nov 3.
The frequency of parental alcohol risk communication (ARC) is considered an integral component of socializing youth about alcohol, but the literature offers mixed findings on whether such communication is protective. Early adolescents' prior drinking experiences may moderate the effectiveness of ARC, but evidence for such an interaction is inconsistent. One limitation of this work considering prior drinking experience is that it has not distinguished drinking with versus without parental permission. Parents are one of the earliest sources of information about alcohol use and many parents view allowing adolescents to drink alcohol with permission as a harm reduction strategy, despite some work suggesting the opposite effect. Using a random effects multilevel regression, we tested the unique moderating effects of drinking with and without parental permission on the prospective association between alcohol risk communication and later drinking without parental permission. Adolescent and parent dyads completed 3 annual assessments (first assessment mean age = 12.6, 52% girls, 76% White/non-Hispanic). Results supported a three-way interaction. There was a modest protective effect of parental ARC on later adolescent drinking, but only for adolescents who had prior experience drinking both with and without parental permission. For all other combinations of prior drinking experience, parental communication was not prospectively related to later drinking. These results help clarify the mixed literature on alcohol communication and suggests that ARC may help reduce some of the risk associated with allowing youth to drink alcohol but only for youth who also have experience with alcohol outside of parental supervision.
父母酒精风险沟通（ARC）的频率被认为是向青少年灌输酒精知识的一个组成部分，但关于这种沟通是否具有保护作用的文献结论不一。青少年早期的饮酒经历可能会调节 ARC 的有效性，但这种相互作用的证据并不一致。考虑到之前的饮酒经验，这项工作的一个局限性是它没有区分有父母允许和没有父母允许的情况下的饮酒。父母是青少年获取有关饮酒信息的最早来源之一，许多父母认为允许青少年在有父母允许的情况下饮酒是一种减少伤害的策略，尽管有一些研究表明恰恰相反。本研究采用随机效应多层回归，检验了有父母允许和没有父母允许的情况下饮酒经验对酒精风险沟通与之后没有父母允许的情况下饮酒之间的前瞻性关联的独特调节作用。青少年和家长对完成了 3 次年度评估（第一次评估的平均年龄为 12.6 岁，52%为女孩，76%为白种人/非西班牙裔）。结果支持了三向交互作用。父母的 ARC 对青少年后期饮酒有适度的保护作用，但仅限于那些既有父母允许又有父母不允许的情况下有过饮酒经验的青少年。对于所有其他组合的之前饮酒经验，父母的沟通与之后的饮酒没有前瞻性关系。这些结果有助于澄清关于酒精沟通的混合文献，并表明 ARC 可能有助于减少一些与允许青少年饮酒相关的风险，但仅适用于那些也有父母监督之外的饮酒经验的青少年。
