Citation

Armenta BE, Sittner KJ, Whitbeck LB. Child Dev. 2016; 87(3): 870-882.

Affiliation

University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/cdev.12506

PMID

27028364

Abstract

Empirical efforts to identify the predictors of drinking behavior among North American Indigenous adolescents are relatively limited. Using longitudinal data, this study considers perceived discrimination, positive drinker prototypes, and peer drinking behavior as risk factors for the onset of alcohol use and development of an alcohol use disorder among 674 Indigenous adolescents as they progressed from early to late adolescence (M age at baseline = 11.11, SD = 0.83).

RESULTS showed that positive drinker prototypes and associations with peers who drink increased the risk for the onset of drinking, while perceived discrimination and associations with peers who drink increased the risk for the development of an alcohol use disorder. The theoretical and practical implications of our results are discussed.

© 2016 The Authors. Child Development © 2016 Society for Research in Child Development, Inc.

Language: en