Effects of Excessive Alcohol Use on Antisocial Behavior Across Adolescence and Early Adulthood.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Antisocial behavior (ASB) decreases with age in most of the population; however, excessive alcohol use can inhibit the desistance process. This study investigated whether excessive early drinking might slow a young person's overall pattern of crime desistance compared with that of others ("between-person effects") and whether short-term increases in alcohol consumption might result in short-term increases in ASB ("within-person effects").

Method

Frequency of ASB and typical alcohol consumption were assessed repeatedly in young people 15 to 21 years old in a population-based birth cohort (Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children). Longitudinal trajectories showed ASB decreasing and alcohol use increasing across adolescence, which stabilized in adulthood. The

SUBMITTER: Hammerton G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5625031 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature