Descriptive norms influence alcohol use among high-school students: a social norms study from Istanbul

Güngör, Ekin Sönmez; Tunca, Dilay; Çelebi, Cengiz; Gündüz, Anıl; Karaer, Gülhan; Kandemir, Güler; Akvardar, Yıldız

doi:10.1080/14659891.2021.1900429

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“…Tobacco and alcohol use are prevalent social problems worldwide, especially among adolescents [ 1 ]. It may cause great harm to adolescents’ health and adaptation—tobacco and alcohol use cause brain damage [ 2 ], poor academic performance [ 3 , 4 ], and aggressive behaviors [ 5 ] among adolescents. Therefore, its influencing factors have been the focus of researchers, among which peer relationship, especially deviant peer affiliation, has received attention [ 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 ].…”

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Deviant Peer Affiliation and Adolescent Tobacco and Alcohol Use: The Roles of Tobacco and Alcohol Information Exposure on Social Networking Sites and Digital Literacy

Yao

Duan

Sun

et al. 2022

Behavioral Sciences

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Due to the prevalence and severe harm of adolescent tobacco and alcohol use, researchers have been paying attention to its influencing factors. From the perspective of the ecological techno-subsystem theory, this study aimed to examine the correlations between deviant peer affiliation, tobacco and alcohol information exposure on social networking sites (SNSs), and adolescent tobacco and alcohol use, as well as the potential protective role of digital literacy. In total, 725 adolescents were recruited to participate in this study. The results showed that deviant peer affiliation was positively associated with adolescent tobacco and alcohol use, SNS tobacco and alcohol information exposure mediated this association, and digital literacy moderated the relationship between SNS information exposure and tobacco and alcohol use. Specifically, the association between SNS tobacco and alcohol information exposure and adolescent tobacco and alcohol use was weaker for those with high digital literacy. These findings not only explore the combined effects of offline and online risk factors but also provide guides for preventing adolescents’ tobacco and alcohol use by cultivating and enhancing digital literacy.

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Deviant Peer Affiliation and Adolescent Tobacco and Alcohol Use: The Roles of Tobacco and Alcohol Information Exposure on Social Networking Sites and Digital Literacy

Yao

Duan

Sun

et al. 2022

Behavioral Sciences

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Societal spirits in the silver streak: Unraveling complexity in drinking habits of the mature adult population

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Freichel,

van der Maas

et al. 2025

Alcohol, Clinical and Experimental Research

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BackgroundThe complex interactions between an individual's drinking behavior and their social environment is crucial but understudied, particularly in mature adult populations. Our aim is to unravel these complexities by investigating how personal drinking patterns are related to those of one's social environment over time, and what the interplay is with personal factors such as occupational prestige and smoking behavior.MethodThe present study adopts an innovative graphical autoregressive (GVAR) panel network modeling approach to investigate the dynamics between personal drinking habits and social environmental factors, utilizing a comprehensive longitudinal dataset from the Framingham Heart Study with a large sample of predominantly mature adults (N = 1719–5718) connected within a social network. We explored both temporal and contemporaneous associations between individuals' drinking habits (self‐reported), smoking behavior (self‐reported), perceived job prestige (Treiman prestige score), and the drinking behaviors of their social environment. The latter consists of the proportion of abstaining, moderate drinking, and heavy drinking social connections of each subject.ResultsOur findings reveal significant associations between participants' behavior and that of their peers, with reciprocal interactions, substantiating the importance of the influence of one's social network for mature individuals. We found dynamic, reciprocal associations between an individual's drinking behavior and that of their peers, with periods of increased or decreased drinking correlating with increased connections to heavy drinkers or abstainers, respectively. In addition, when individuals drink more than usual, they also tend to consume more cigarettes, and vice versa.ConclusionsThe reciprocal feedback loops identified between an individual's drinking behavior and their social environment highlight the crucial role of social influences in shaping drinking behavior, including among older people. This emphasizes the need to consider social elements in the development of future theories, models, and interventions aimed at addressing problematic alcohol consumption in this vulnerable population.

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Descriptive norms influence alcohol use among high-school students: a social norms study from Istanbul

Cited by 2 publications

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Deviant Peer Affiliation and Adolescent Tobacco and Alcohol Use: The Roles of Tobacco and Alcohol Information Exposure on Social Networking Sites and Digital Literacy

Deviant Peer Affiliation and Adolescent Tobacco and Alcohol Use: The Roles of Tobacco and Alcohol Information Exposure on Social Networking Sites and Digital Literacy

Societal spirits in the silver streak: Unraveling complexity in drinking habits of the mature adult population

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