Early Adolescent and Peer Drinking Homogeneity

Early Environment, Adolescent Alcohol Drinking and Neurobiological Responses to Drugs

Palm, S. 2014. Early Environment, Adolescent Alcohol Drinking and Neurobiological Responses to Drugs. Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Pharmacy 190. 99 pp. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. ISBN 978-91-554-9011-9. Genes and environment interact to determine an individual’s vulnerability or resilience to several psychiatric disorders, including ...

Early Adolescent Peer Foundations of Late Adolescent and Young Adult Psychological Adjustment.

The long-term impacts of failing to establish autonomy and relatedness within close friendships are poorly understood. Adolescent behaviors undermining autonomy and relatedness in friendships at 13 were examined as predictors of friendship competence at 18 and depressive symptoms and social withdrawal at 21. A diverse community sample of 184 adolescents participated in self, peer, and observati...

Parental and Peer Influences on Adolescent Drinking: The Relative Impact of Attachment and Opportunity

An ADH1B variant and peer drinking in progression to adolescent drinking milestones: evidence of a gene-by-environment interaction.

BACKGROUND Adolescent drinking is an important public health concern, one that is influenced by both genetic and environmental factors. The functional variant rs1229984 in alcohol dehydrogenase 1B (ADH1B) has been associated at a genome-wide level with alcohol use disorders in diverse adult populations. However, few data are available regarding whether this variant influences early drinking beh...

The timing of middle-childhood peer rejection and friendship: linking early behavior to early-adolescent adjustment.

This study used a sample of 551 children surveyed yearly from ages 6 to 13 to examine the longitudinal associations among early behavior, middle-childhood peer rejection and friendedness, and early-adolescent depressive symptoms, loneliness, and delinquency. The study tested a sequential mediation hypothesis in which (a) behavior problems in the early school years are associated with middle-chi...