Growing up with Alcohol

Fossey, Emma

doi:10.4324/9780203991343

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“…Younger children (4.5-6.5 years of age), although they could label individual bottles correctly, could not explain how the bottles were grouped. Fossey 127 replicated the original bottle-grouping task used by Jahoda and Cramond 126 and found that older children did better than younger children in grouping actual bottles.…”

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“…Studies of normal samples over a 20-year period showed that children's ratings of adults depicted drinking alcohol are basically neutral at age 6 and become more negative up through 10 years of age. 126,127 Additional research with this same paradigm showed that these attitudes become more positive between 10 and 14 years of age. 130 Between third and seventh grade, significantly more children say it is "okay" for people to drink alcohol.…”

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“…131 Children have also been shown to have definite beliefs about the characteristics of drinkers and the behavioral effects of drinking by 10 years of age. 127,[132][133][134] Girls, particularly in the younger grades (kindergarten and third grade), were found to provide more coordinated, psychological, and causal responses than boys when asked to explain why men and women described in the vignettes were drinking. 133 Children's expectancies about the effects of alcohol on drinkers are also generally negative 124 but become more positive as the children become older 134 and as they move into adolescence.…”

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“…124,125 This ability increases throughout childhood, with greater accuracy of identification with age from 6 years through 10 years of age. 126,127 By 6.5 to 7.5 years of age, the majority of children can demonstrate the concept of "alcohol" by correctly labeling photographs of bottles of alcoholic beverages and by being able to explain the difference between clusters of bottles of alcohol and clusters of other bottles. Younger children (4.5-6.5 years of age), although they could label individual bottles correctly, could not explain how the bottles were grouped.…”

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Early Developmental Processes and the Continuity of Risk for Underage Drinking and Problem Drinking

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Developmental pathways to underage drinking emerge before the second decade of life. Many scientists, however, as well as the general public, continue to focus on proximal influences surrounding the initiation of drinking in adolescence, such as social, behavioral, and genetic variables related to availability and ease of acquisition of the drug, social reinforcement for its use, and individual differences in drug responses. In the past 20 years, a considerable body of evidence has accumulated on the early (often much earlier than the time of the first drink) predictors and pathways of youthful alcohol use and abuse. These early developmental influences involve numerous risk, vulnerability, promotive, and protective processes. Some of these factors are not related directly to alcohol use, whereas others involve learning and expectancies about later drug use that are shaped by social experience. The salience of these factors (identifiable in early childhood) for understanding the course and development of adult alcohol and other drug use disorders is evident from the large and growing body of findings on their ability to predict adult clinical outcomes. This review summarizes the evidence on early pathways toward and away from underage drinking, with a particular focus on the risk and protective factors and the mediators and moderators of risk for underage drinking that become evident during the preschool and early school years. It is guided by a developmental perspective on the aggregation of risk and protection and examines the contributions of biological, psychological, and social processes within the context of normal development. Implications of this evidence for policy, intervention, and future research are discussed. S EVERAL BASIC THEMES provide guidance for developing a perspective on the timing, processes, and experiences in earlier life relevant to the acquisition, use, and problem use of alcohol. First, much of the causal structure underlying youthful alcohol use and abuse is not specific to alcohol and in particular is either directly or indirectly the result of the development of externalizing and internalizing behaviors. 1-3 Family history of antisocial behavior, child maltreatment, and other negative life experiences are well-established precursors of later alcohol problems and alcohol use disorders (AUDs). These predictors are nonspecific risks for alcohol involvement, because they also predict a broad array of other problematic outcomes, including problems of undercontrolled or dysregulated behavior such as conduct problems, impulsivity, attention problems, aggressiveness, antisocial personality disorder, and depressive spectrum disorders.Second, at the same time that children develop behavior problems not specific to alcohol, they acquire knowledge about the existence of alcohol as an object in the social environment. Learning about alcohol includes developing beliefs about alcohol on the basis of an awareness of its special characteristics as a drug (how it produces changes in cognitio...

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Section: Development Of Children's Beliefs and Expectancies About Alcmentioning

confidence: 60%

Section: Development Of Children's Beliefs and Expectancies About Alcmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Development Of Children's Beliefs and Expectancies About Alcmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Development Of Children's Beliefs and Expectancies About Alcmentioning

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Early Developmental Processes and the Continuity of Risk for Underage Drinking and Problem Drinking

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“…Developmental studies have shown that children as young as 3 to 5 years old can recognize alcoholic beverages by their smell (Fossey, 1994; Noll et al., 1990), that children as young as 3 years have developed alcohol schema (Zucker et al., 1995), and that children as young as age 8 years have developed a concept of alcoholic drinks (Fossey, 1994; Jahoda and Cramond, 1972). Several reviews have established quite clearly that children have definite attitudes about alcohol drinking, stereotypes about drinkers, and schema and expectancies concerning the effects of drinking (Lang and Stritzke, 1993; Maisto and Carey, 1985).…”

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