Sibling influences on adolescent alcohol use during the spring 2020 COVID-19 pandemic shutdown.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine the bidirectional associations between adolescent siblings' alcohol use before and during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in Spring 2020 and whether youths' stress about missed social connections (i.e., social disruption stress) moderated these associations.

Method

The sample consisted of 682 families (2,046 participants) with two adolescent siblings (older siblings: M_age = 15.67 years, 51% female; younger siblings: M_age = 13.14 years, 48% female) and one parent (M_age = 45.15 years; 85% female) from five Midwestern U.S. states. Siblings reported on their own drinking and social disruption stress before and during the onset of the pandemic via online surveys.

Results

Accounting for younger si

SUBMITTER: Whiteman SD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9667236 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature