The Relationship of Adolescent Perceptions of Peer Norms and Parent Involvement to Cigarette and Alcohol Use

Olds, R. Scott; Thombs, Dennis L.

doi:10.1111/j.1746-1561.2001.tb01322.x

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“…The main factors for the Han group were: father drinking, mother drinking, family relationships, single parent, peer relationships and peer drinking (Yeh & Chiang, 2005). These findings were congruent with the findings of a study by Olds & Thombs (2001). In contrast, the main factors affecting the indigenous group were only father drinking and peer drinking.…”

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Alcohol use and problem drinking in Taiwanese adolescents: comparison of the Han and indigenous populations

2006

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The population of Taiwan is 98% Han and 2% indigenous. Taiwanese Hans are, ethnically, an immigrant Chinese population. Traditionally, indigenous families make wine and, just like tea to the Hans or coffee in Western social settings, wine is served to entertain the guests in the indigenous culture. Alcohol drinking is a way of delivering a message of their conviviality. It also has a central role in traditional harvest festivals, ancestor worship and wedding ceremonies (Historical Research Commission of Taiwan Province, 1996).

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Alcohol use and problem drinking in Taiwanese adolescents: comparison of the Han and indigenous populations

2006

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“…Studies that have taken this approach have demonstrated that social influences are the primary factor in the adolescent initiation of drug using and abusing behaviors (Donaldson et al, 1996;Flom, Friedman, Jose, & Curtis, 2001 & Park, 2000;Olds & Thombs, 2001). For adolescents, peer influence supplants adult influence as a prime factor in shaping behavioral norms, beliefs, and a wide range of both positive and negative behaviors, including substance use (Dishion & Medici Skaggs, 2000;Ennett & Baumann, 1994;Kandel, 1978;Thornberry & Krohn, 1997;Urberg, Degirmencioglu & Pilgrim, 1997).…”

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Peer Standing and Substance Use in Early-Adolescent Grade-Level Networks: A Short-Term Longitudinal Study

2006

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Two competing hypotheses were tested concerning the associations between current alcohol and cigarette use and measures of individual, group and network peer standing in an ethnically-diverse sample of 156 male and female adolescents sampled at two time points in the seventh grade. Findings lent greater support to the person hypothesis, with early regular substance users enjoying elevated standing amongst their peers and maintaining this standing regardless of their maintenance of or desistance from current use later in the school year. In the fall semester, users (n=20, 13%) had greater social impact, were described by their peers as more popular, and were more central to the peer network than abstainers (i.e., those who did not report current use).Conversely, in the spring semester, there were no differences between users (n=22, 13%) and abstainers in peer ratings of popularity or social impact. Notably, the spring semester users group retained fewer than half of the users from the fall semester. Further, students who had reported current use in the fall, as a group, retained their positions of elevated peer standing in the spring, compared to all other students, and continued to be rated by their peers as more popular and as having greater social impact.We discuss the findings in terms of the benefit of employing simultaneous systemic and individual measures of peer standing or group prominence, which in the case of peer-based prevention programs, can help clarify the truly influential from the "pretenders" in the case of diffusion of risk-related behaviors. KeywordsEarly adolescents; Substance use; Peer standing; Social networksThe social dynamics of influence in peer networks have been well documented in the social psychological research literature, yet very little of this basic research has been applied in drug prevention programming. Studies that have taken this approach have demonstrated that social influences are the primary factor in the adolescent initiation of drug using and abusing behaviors (Donaldson et al., 1996;Flom, Friedman, Jose, & Curtis, 2001 & Park, 2000;Olds & Thombs, 2001). For adolescents, peer influence supplants adult influence as a prime factor in shaping behavioral norms, beliefs, and a wide range of both positive and negative behaviors, including substance use (Dishion & Medici Skaggs, 2000;Ennett & Baumann, 1994;Kandel, 1978;Thornberry & Krohn, 1997;Urberg, Degirmencioglu & Pilgrim, 1997).In recognition of the power of influential peers, guidelines for substance use prevention programs in schools recommend the use of peer leaders (Journal of School Health, 1994), and many such active peer-led programs are successful at reducing substance use in the schools (Black, Tobler, & Sciacca, 1998). However, peer influence is not equally distributed across the peer network. Rather, there is a hierarchy of influence power in peer social groups, with some individuals being more potent than others, and consequently with greater power to transmit information about norms and behaviors. I...

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“…Youth may be infl uenced by their peers directly (e.g., by observing peers' behavior, by peer pressure, and by peers providing alcohol) and indirectly (e.g., by their perceptions of whether their peers are drinking). Several researchers have shown that perceived use of alcohol by one's peers independently predicts self-reported alcohol use (Olds and Thombs, 2001;Prinstein and Wang, 2005;Reboussin et al, 2006;Song et al, 2012). Beauvais (1986a, 1986b) proposed "peer cluster theory" as a means to explain the strong relationship typically found between drug use and the drug involvement of peers.…”

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Social Influences on the Clustering of Underage Risky Drinking and Its Consequences in Communities

Reboussin

Song

Wolfson

2012

J. Stud. Alcohol Drugs

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ABSTRACT. Objective: The purpose of this research was to examine whether the clustering of underage risky drinking and its consequences within communities might arise from shared perceptions regarding underage drinking as well as the social context of drinking. Method: The Enforcing Underage Drinking Laws Randomized Community Trial provided data from repeated cross-sectional samples of 5,017 current drinkers (2,619 male) ages 14-20 years from 68 communities surveyed in 2004, 2006, and 2007. Alternating logistic regressions were used to estimate the infl uence of social factors on the clustering of getting drunk, heavy episodic drinking, nonviolent consequences, and driving after drinking or riding with a drinking driver. Results: The clustering of getting drunk, heavy episodic drinking, and nonviolent consequences was no longer statistically signifi cant after adjustment for drinking with friends and drinking with parents. Parents providing alcohol explained the clustering of heavy episodic drinking and nonviolent consequences, whereas drinking with other underage drinkers and friends providing alcohol explained the clustering of nonviolent consequences. Drinking with friends or other underage drinkers and friends providing alcohol increased the risk of these behaviors, whereas drinking with parents and parents providing alcohol were protective. Perceptions regarding peer drinking, community norms, consequences for drinking, and drinking at a party did not infl uence clustering. Conclusions: These fi ndings suggest that interventions to reduce underage risky drinking in communities should focus on the differential effects of the social context in which drinking occurs. (J. Stud. Alcohol Drugs, 73, 890-898, 2012)

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The Relationship of Adolescent Perceptions of Peer Norms and Parent Involvement to Cigarette and Alcohol Use

Cited by 85 publications

References 18 publications

Alcohol use and problem drinking in Taiwanese adolescents: comparison of the Han and indigenous populations

Alcohol use and problem drinking in Taiwanese adolescents: comparison of the Han and indigenous populations

Peer Standing and Substance Use in Early-Adolescent Grade-Level Networks: A Short-Term Longitudinal Study

Social Influences on the Clustering of Underage Risky Drinking and Its Consequences in Communities

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