Selection and Socialization Influences on Adolescent Alcohol Use: The Individual and Joint Contexts of Neighborhood Disadvantage and Population Density.

ABSTRACT: Background: Neighborhood disadvantage (ND) and population density (PD) are two community characteristics contextualizing friends' influence on adolescent alcohol use. However, these community characteristics are rarely examined for potential joint contributions, although it is possible that the way friends are selected or influence alcohol use are shaped by both ND and PD. In addition, prior studies examining ND or PD contexts on friend influence rarely discern between socialization and selection. Objectives: The current study examined how selection and socialization influences on adolescent alcohol use are shaped by unique and joint contexts of ND and PD. Methods: Adolescents from Waves I and II of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent and Adult Health (Add He

SUBMITTER: Deutsch AR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6594885 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature