| Titre : | Antecedent predictors of children's initiation of sipping/tasting alcohol (2014) |
| Auteurs : | J. E. DONOVAN ; B. S. G. MOLINA |
| Type de document : | Article : Périodique |
| Dans : | Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research (Vol.38, n°9, September 2014) |
| Article en page(s) : | 2488-2495 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Discipline : | EPI (Epidémiologie / Epidemiology) |
| Mots-clés : |
Thésaurus Géographique ETATS-UNISThésaurus TOXIBASE ETUDE LONGITUDINALE ; ENFANT ; ALCOOL ; INITIATION ; GOUT ; FACTEUR PREDICTIF ; PARENT |
| Résumé : |
Background: Sipping or tasting alcohol is one of the earliest alcohol-use behaviors in which young children engage, yet there is relatively little research on this behavior. Previous cross-sectional analyses determined that child sipping or tasting is associated with the child's attitude toward sipping and with a family environment supportive of alcohol use, but not with variables reflecting psychosocial proneness for problem behavior as formulated in Problem Behavior Theory (Jessor and Jessor, Problem Behavior and Psychosocial Development: A Longitudinal Study of Youth, 1977, Academic Press, New York). This study extended these analyses longitudinally to identify antecedent predictors of the childhood initiation of sipping or tasting alcohol in a multiwave study.
Methods: A sample of 452 children (238 girls) aged 8 or 10 and their families was drawn from Allegheny County, PA, using targeted-age directory sampling and random digit dialing procedures. Children were interviewed using computer-assisted interviews. Antecedent variables collected at baseline (Wave 1) were examined as predictors of the initiation of sipping/tasting alcohol in childhood (before age 12) among Wave 1 abstainers (n = 286). Results: Ninety-four children initiated sipping/tasting alcohol in a nonreligious context between baseline and turning age 12. Initiation of sipping/tasting did not generally relate to baseline variables reflecting psychosocial proneness for problem behavior. Instead, as found in the previous cross-sectional analyses, the variables most predictive of initiating sipping/tasting were perceived parents' approval for child sipping, parents' reported approval for child sipping, parents' current drinking status, and children's attitudes toward sipping/tasting alcohol. Conclusions: These longitudinal analyses replicate the earlier cross-sectional results. Young children's sipping/tasting of alcohol reflects parental modeling of drinking and parental approval of child sipping and does not represent a precocious manifestation of a psychosocial proneness to engage in problem behavior. |
| Domaine : | Alcool / Alcohol |
| Affiliation : | Departments of Psychiatry and Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA |
| Lien : | http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/acer.12517 |
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