@article{ref1,
title="Influence of grade-level drinking norms on individual drinking behavior",
journal="American journal of health behavior",
year="2013",
author="Yarnell, Lisa M. and Brown, H. Shelton and Pasch, Keryn E. and Perry, Cheryl L. and Komro, Kelli A.",
volume="37",
number="1",
pages="70-79",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: To investigate which points of the middle-school drinking distribution are the most influential in the social contagion of drinking across the middle-school years, in order to identify potential social multipliers. METHODS: We measured drinking intentions and behaviors by gender, school, and grade among urban middle-school students who participated in Project Northland Chicago in a longitudinal cohort design. RESULTS: Individual drinking behaviors were consistently influenced by extreme (80(th) percentile) drinking intentions and behaviors. This effect was mediated through normal or average levels of drinking, over time. CONCLUSIONS: Interventions can target extreme drinkers as the influential persons in middle-school grades.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1087-3244",
doi="10.5993/AJHB.37.1.8",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.5993/AJHB.37.1.8"
}