Patterns of bi-directional relations across alcohol use, religiosity, and self-control in adolescent girls.

ABSTRACT: Examining predictors of alcohol use among adolescent girls is increasingly important to enhance prevention efforts, given that the gender gap in alcohol use is steadily closing. While both religiosity and self-control have been independently associated with decreased alcohol use, little research has explored 1) whether religiosity and self-control are reciprocally related and 2) whether the reciprocal association between these constructs may indicate different patterns in the development of alcohol use. As such, this study examined whether there are multiple patterns of reciprocal relationships across religiosity, self-control, and alcohol use among adolescent girls. Latent variable mixture modeling was combined with an autoregressive cross-lagged panel model to identify discrete, prototyp

SUBMITTER: Palm MH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8341452 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature