Which adolescent factors predict alcohol misuse in young adulthood? A co-twin comparisons study.

ABSTRACT:

Background and aims

Research on adolescent predictors of later alcohol misuse is typically conducted on samples of singletons, and associations may be confounded by between-family differences. To address potential confounding, we applied a co-twin comparison design to evaluate whether differences between co-twins in a wide array of adolescent risk factors predicted differences in young adult alcohol misuse.

Design

Longitudinal study in which associations between characteristics of the sample as adolescents were used to predict young adult alcohol misuse in individual-level analyses and co-twin comparisons.

Setting

Finland.

Participants

A total of 3402 individuals (1435 complete twin pairs; 36% monozygotic; 57% female) from the FinnTwin12 study.

Measurements<

SUBMITTER: Stephenson M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7156309 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature