Social facilitation of alcohol subjective effects in adolescents: Associations with subsequent alcohol use.

ABSTRACT:

Rationale

Laboratory research in adults indicates that alcohol-related subjective effects are enhanced under some social conditions. However, it is unknown whether this "social facilitation" of alcohol effects occurs in adolescents and is associated with alcohol use in the natural ecology.

Objectives

We examined associations of social facilitation of alcohol-related subjective effects with subsequent alcohol use among a relatively high-risk group of adolescents who reported drinking alcohol both with friends and alone.

Methods

Los Angeles high school students from a prospective study (N = 142; 51% female; 10th graders) completed a baseline survey that assessed alcohol-related "positive" and "negative" subjective effects in two contexts: social (alcohol with friends) a

SUBMITTER: Kirkpatrick MG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10461607 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature