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This study investigated the combined influence of parental monitoring, community monitoring, and exposure to substance-using peers on early-onset alcohol use in a sample of American Indian adolescents in three Pacific Northwest tribal communities. We used structural equation modeling, including tests of indirect effects, in the investigation of 281 American Indian youth between ages 8 and 16 years at the time of consent. The effects of parental monitoring and community monitoring, mediated by friends’ substance use, were examined in terms of youth alcohol use outcomes. Parental monitoring practices and contagion in peer substance use were proximal predictors of early-onset alcohol use and the mediating effect of friends’ substance use was not significant. Community monitoring accounted for unique variance in affiliation with substance-using friends.
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This project was supported by grant AA98-003 from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism to the first author. We thank the participating tribes who granted permission to conduct research on their tribal lands and to the tribal members who generously answered all the questions asked of them. This research project would not have been possible without the significant contributions of many people. The following interviewers, computer/data management, and administrative staff supplied energy and enthusiasm for an often difficult job: Eldon Miller, Jeremy Fritts, Alethea Barlow, Kevin Ball, Shannon McGill, Charlotte Winter, Robert Lawson, Lisa Stano, Annie Miller, Garrick Jackson, Karen Wilbrecht, Porsha Crager, Stephanie Ohles, Carol Sahme, Brenda Williams, Lottie Riddle, Laurae McClain, Aryel Harrington, Meticia Sheppard, and Cheryl Mikkola.
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Boyd-Ball, A.J., Véronneau, MH., Dishion, T.J. et al. Monitoring and Peer Influences as Predictors of Increases in Alcohol Use Among American Indian Youth. Prev Sci 15, 526–535 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11121-013-0399-1
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