Child & Adolescent Risk Factors for Young Adult Alcohol Problems

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基本信息

批准号：
8705967
负责人：
John E. Donovan
金额：
$ 55.4万
依托单位：
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2000
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2000-05-01 至 2016-07-31
项目状态：
已结题

项目摘要

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The overarching goal of this competing renewal application is to examine the linkage between child and adolescent predictors and young adult alcohol use and problems using longitudinal data from the Tween to Teen Project, a community sample of 452 European-American and African-American 8- and 10-year-old children and their families randomly selected from Allegheny County (PA). By the end of the 10th year of funding, 14 waves will have been collected on the two age cohorts, encompassing ages 8-16 for the younger cohort and ages 10-18 for the older cohort. This renewal will support the collection of age-18 data on the younger cohort and age-21 data on both age cohorts. The Tween to Teen Project is unique in its attention to the development of both alcohol-specific and general risk factors for the early initiation of drinking and the escalation into problem drinking from middle childhood through middle adolescence. The theoretical framework underlying the research is Problem Behavior Theory (PBT: Jessor & Jessor, 1977), which we have extended downstream into middle childhood and expanded to include greater attention to the parental and peer social environments and their influence on socialization. In addition, variables reflecting behavioral undercontrol, negative affectivity, temperament, and family history of alcohol problems were incorporated in the longitudinal assessments. Retention has been excellent. As of Wave 12, 85 percent of the original sample (384 of 452 families) are still participating. Waves 13 and 14 are ongoing. Specific aims are the following: 1) To describe the trajectories of development on alcohol-specific and general risk factors from middle childhood into young adulthood, comparing trajectories across early-onset drinkers (age 14 or younger), later-onset drinkers (age 15+), and never drinkers; 2) To determine the young adult consequences of early-onset drinking in contrast to later-onset drinking using age-21 data; 3) To use the personality, social environment, and behavior variables of PBT and the other variables collected in the Tween and Teen phases of data collection as prospective antecedent predictors of young adult alcohol use and alcohol use disorder (AUD) outcomes; and 4) To examine the relationship between growth in alcohol involvement from adolescence into young adulthood and growth in latent constructs reflecting problem behavior proneness in Problem Behavior Theory, as well as constructs reflecting behavioral undercontrol and negative affectivity. Accomplishment of these research aims should enhance understanding of the relationships among early-onset drinking, psychosocial development, and movement into problematic alcohol use in young adulthood. The research should thereby advance prevention efforts by identifying which modifiable risk factors should be targeted for maximum effect in reducing young adult problem drinking.

描述（由申请人提供）：这种竞争性更新申请的总体目标是检查儿童和青少年预测变量与青少年的饮酒之间的联系以及使用Tween到青少年项目的纵向数据，452个欧美和非裔美国人和10岁儿童及其家人从Allegheny县随机选择的452个社区样本。到资金的第10年结束时，将在两个年龄群体上收集14次波浪，年轻同伙的年龄为8-16岁，而年龄较大的队列为10-18岁。这种续签将支持有关年龄群体和21岁同龄人群数据的18岁数据的收集。对青少年的补间项目的关注是对早期饮酒的发展和一般风险因素的发展以及从童年至青春期中期饮酒的问题的发展。研究基础的理论框架是问题行为理论（PBT：Jessor＆Jessor，1977年），我们将其扩展到了下游，并扩展到了对父母和同伴社会环境的更加关注，及其对社交化的影响。此外，在纵向评估中纳入了反映行为不足，阴性情感，气质和家族史的变量。保留非常好。截至第12波，原始样本中有85％（452个家庭中的384个）仍在参与。海浪13和14正在进行中。具体目的是：1）描述从儿童中期到成年期酒精特异性和一般危险因素发展的发展轨迹，比较早期发作的饮酒者（14岁或更年轻）的轨迹，晚期饮酒者（15岁以上），从不饮酒； 2）确定早期饮酒的年轻成人后果与使用21岁年龄的数据相比进行鲜明对比； 3）使用PBT的人格，社交环境和行为变量以及在数据收集的补间和青少年阶段收集的其他变量，作为年轻成人酒精使用和酒精饮酒障碍（AUD）结果的前瞻性预测指标； 4）检查酒精从青春期参与到年轻成年的饮酒与潜在构建体的生长之间的关系，反映了问题行为理论中问题行为倾向，以及反映了行为范围内控制和负面情感的构造。这些研究目的的完成应增强对早期饮酒，社会心理发展以及成年后饮酒中有问题的饮酒的关系的理解。该研究应通过确定应针对哪些可修改的危险因素来提高预防工作，以最大程度地减少成人饮酒。