Demographic Moderation of the Prediction of Adolescent Alcohol Involvement Trajectories.

ABSTRACT: Several school- and family-based preventive interventions target and effectively reduce adolescent alcohol misuse. However, whether demographic groups achieve equal success with these interventions is unclear. In particular, most interventions target younger adolescents, and program effectiveness tends to be measured with majority White samples; subgroup analyses are rarely reported. We analyze longitudinal data from a sample of N = 6189 adolescents (40% Black, 60% White; 50% female) in 6th through 12th grade to quantify the degree to which age, race, and gender moderate the associations between seven well-known risk and protective factors (RPFs) that serve as common intervention targets. The RPFs that we study are drawn from social learning theory, problem behavior theory, and social cont

SUBMITTER: Gottfredson NC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6395564 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature