Adolescent Drinking

Cross-sectional study on parental pro-drinking practices and adolescent alcohol drinking in Hong Kong

OBJECTIVES To investigate the association between parental pro-drinking practices (PPDPs) and alcohol drinking in Hong Kong Chinese adolescents. DESIGN A cross-sectional study. SETTING 4 randomly selected secondary schools in Hong Kong. PARTICIPANTS 1738 students (mean age 14.6 years ± 2.0, boys 67.8%). MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Drinking status, drinking intention and exposure to 9 PPDPs (e...

Adolescent Socioeconomic and School-Based Social Status, Smoking, and Drinking

PURPOSE Relationships between subjective social status (SSS) and health-risk behaviors have received less attention than those between SSS and health. Inconsistent associations between school-based SSS and smoking or drinking might be because it is a single measure reflecting several status dimensions. We investigated how adolescent smoking and drinking are associated with "objective" socioecon...

Affective decision-making predictive of Chinese adolescent drinking behaviors.

The goal of the current investigation was to address whether affective decision making would serve as a unique neuropsychological marker to predict drinking behaviors among adolescents. We conducted a longitudinal study of 181 Chinese adolescents in Chengdu city, China. In their 10th grade (ages 15-16), these adolescents were tested for their affective decision-making ability using the Iowa Gam...

Adolescent drinking and sex: findings from a daily diary study.

CONTEXT Alcohol consumption often has been cited as increasing adolescents' risk of HIV, and several studies have shown positive relationships between drinking and risky sexual behavior among adolescents. Because most of these studies used global measures of drinking and risky sex, and conducted comparisons across persons, they could not determine whether alcohol use was a cause of risky sex or...

Drinking and denial of social obligations among adolescent boys.