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This study examined alcohol use among seventh graders in relation to life events, daily hassles, the supportive quality of the family environment, coping, and anxiety. Four hundred twenty-five students participated, 228 girls and 197 boys. Stepwise regression and discriminant function analyses indicated that the students reported more alcohol use if they also reported more life events, more daily hassles, and more conflict in the family. A stress-buffering effect of low family conflict on life events could not be substantiated for extent of alcohol use. The results are discussed in the context of the developmental transitions of adolescence.
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Baer, P.E., Garmezy, L.B., McLaughlin, R.J. et al. Stress, coping, family conflict, and adolescent alcohol use. J Behav Med 10, 449–466 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00846144
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