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01-10-2006 | Original Paper

High School Drinker Typologies Predict Alcohol Involvement and Psychosocial Adjustment During Acclimation to College

Auteurs: Matthew A. Hersh, Andrea M. Hussong

Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Youth and Adolescence | Uitgave 5/2006

Abstract

This study examined differences among distinct types of high school drinkers on their alcohol involvement and psychosocial adjustment during the first semester of college. Participants were 147 college freshmen (66% female; 86% Caucasian) from a large Southeastern public university who reported on high school drinking and college stress, affect, drinking, and parenting. We used person-centered analyses to reveal relative stability in drinker typologies over the college transition and found some support for the lay-theory that restrictive parenting moderates this stability, with abstainers reacting against restrictive parenting in college through alcohol use. Finally, findings supported Block and Block's (1980) theory of ego-control and resilience such that high school experimenters showed better adaptation than abstainers and heavier users on indices of negative and positive affect. We discuss implications for a person-centered approach to the study of alcohol involvement during the college transition and the need to incorporate parenting constructs in college alcohol use research.

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We tested the same models controlling for first semester of college alcohol use frequency. This provided a test of the differential effects of different high school drinkers on psychosocial outcomes while partialing out the effect of alcohol use frequency in college on the selected adjustment outcomes. After controlling for the frequency of college alcohol use, heavy users, who initially did not experience a difference in stress levels relative to experimenters, reported significantly less stress; moderate users, who initially experienced greater negative affect than experimenters, were no longer any different; and moderate users, who initially did not experience lower levels of positive affect than experimenters, experienced marginally less positive affect.

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Titel: High School Drinker Typologies Predict Alcohol Involvement and Psychosocial Adjustment During Acclimation to College
Auteurs: Matthew A. Hersh
Andrea M. Hussong
Publicatiedatum: 01-10-2006
Uitgeverij: Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers
Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Youth and Adolescence / Uitgave 5/2006
Print ISSN: 0047-2891
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-6601
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-006-9067-0

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