Abstract
An anonymous questionnaire was administered to 779 rural and mostly Caucasian students (grades 7-12). Logistic regression analysis revealed that alcohol involvement was best predicted by age. Two dimensions of perceived parental involvement (Education and Rules X Communication) also had significant, but modest relationships with drinking status. A canonical correlation analysis identified two discernible patterns of association between the parent involvement factors, age, and measures of alcohol abuse in a drinker subsample. Overall, the findings suggest that parental influence operates as a natural harm-reduction mechanism that helps protect teenage drinkers from developing alcohol problems.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 279-288 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Journal | American Journal of Health Behavior |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| State | Published - 1 Dec 1997 |