Socioeconomic Differences in Alcohol-Specific Parenting Practices and Adolescents’ Drinking Patterns
SourceEuropean Addiction Research, 14, 1, (2008), pp. 26-37
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SW OZ BSI OGG
European Addiction Research
The aim of this study was to investigate to what extent alcohol-specific parenting practices relate to adolescents’ alcohol use, binge drinking, and alcohol-related problems, and whether these associations are moderated by socioeconomic status (SES), i.e. parents’ education level and family income. The present data were collected within the framework of a representative study on alcohol use among Dutch students. The present findings are based on data from respondents who had been drinking in the past year (81.5%), and of whom one of the parents had filled out a short questionnaire including SES characteristics (52%). The sample consisted of 1,344 adolescents. Adolescents were approached in a school setting; parents received a short questionnaire at the home address. The results show that applying strict rules about alcohol use and having qualitative good conversations about drinking alcohol seem to prevent adolescents from heavy drinking patterns, whereas parental alcohol use seems to promote adolescents’ drinking. A positive association was found between frequency of alcohol communication and availability of alcohol at home on the one hand and adolescents’ drinking on the other. Some moderating effects of SES were found.
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