Transition into adolescent problem drinking: the role of psychosocial risk and protective factors.

Costa, Frances M.; Jessor, Richard; Turbin, Mark S.

doi:10.15288/jsa.1999.60.480

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“…Replication of the model in tests on other camnpuses seems a promising undertaking. The findings are also consistent with findings when the model was applied to students in secondary school (Costa et al, 1999;Jessor et al, 2003). A second limitation is that participants did not constitute a random sample.…”

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“…Controls protection/social had also emerged in earlier research as a key protective factor in relation to alcohol use and other problem behavior involvement among students in middle school and high school (Costa et al, 2005). The importance of peer models as a social-context risk factor is also consistent both with earlier applications of the protection/risk model to samples of secondary-school students (Costa et al, 1999(Costa et al, , 2005Jessor et al, 2003) and with current literature on college drinking (Borsari and Carey, 2001; Ham and Hope, 2003;Schulenberg and Maggs, 2002).Consistent evidence was found for two moderator effects. Although vulnerability risk/individual was not a significant risk factor for the sample as a whole, the moderator effect of support protection indicates that vulnerability risk/ individual (high stress and low self-esteem) is, indeed, associated withi more frequent heavy episodic drinking for those'stud&nts with low perceived support from parents and teachers.…”

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“…In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the role of protective factors and risk factors in influencing adolescents' involvement in problem behaviors (e.g., problem drinking and the use of illicit drugs) (Jessor, 1991(Jessor, , 1998. This protection/risk model, derived from Problem-Behavior Theory Jessor and Jessor, 1977), has been used to explain problem drinking, including heavy episodic drinking, in samples of middle school and high school students (Costa et al, 1999;Jessor et al, 2003).Protective factors decrease the likelihood of engaging in such problem behaviors as heavy episodic drinking. Psychosocial protective factors provide social models for positive or prosocial behavior (e.g., peer models for conventional behaviors such as volunteer work, parent models for healthenhancing behaviors such as regular exercise); social and personal controls against norm-violative behavior (e.g., parental sanctions for transgression, attitudinal intolerance of deviance); and an environment of social support (e.g., family closeness).…”

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A developmental study of heavy episodic drinking among college students: the role of psychosocial and behavioral protective and risk factors.

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ABSTRACT. Objective: A theory-based protection/risk model was applied to explain variation in college students' heavy episodic drinking. Key aims were (1) to establish that psychosocial and behavioral protective factors and risk factors can account for cross-sectional and developmental variation in heavy episodic drinking, and (2) to examine whether protection moderates the impact of risk on heavy episbdic drinking. Method: Random-and fixed-effects maximum likelihood regression analyses were used to examine data from a three-wave longitudinal study. Data were collected in fall of 2002, spring of 2003, and spring of 2004 from college students (N = 975; 548 men) who were firstsemester freshmen at Wave 1. Results: Psychosocial and behavioral protective and risk factors accounted for substantial variation in collegestudent heavy episodic drinking, and protection moderated the impact of risk. Findings held for both genders and were consistent across the three separate waves of data. Key predictors of heavy episodic drinking were social and individual controls protection (e.g., parental sanctions for transgression and attitudinal intolerance of deviance, respectively); models risk (peer models for substance use); behavioral protection (attendance at religious services); and behavioral risk (cigarette smoking and marijuana use). Changes in controls protection, models risk, and opportunity risk were associated with change in heavy episodic drinking. Conclusions: An explanatory model based on both psychosocial and behavioral protective and risk factors was effective in accounting for variation in college-student heavy episodic drinking. A useful heuristic was demonstrated through the articulation of models, controls, support, opportunity, and vulnerability to characterize the social context, and of controls, vulnerability, and other behaviors to characterize individuals. (J. Stud. Alcohol 67: 86-94, 2006) P ROBLEM USE OF ALCOHOL among college students is a serious public health problem in the United States (Goldman, 2002;Keeling, 1998;Wechsler et al., 2000Wechsler et al., , 2002. Nearly half of college students surveyed reported "getting drunk" as a reason for drinking, and 39%-44% have reported heavy episodic drinking (so-called "binge drinking") (Johnston et al., 2004;Wechsler et al., 2002). Excessive alcohol use adversely affects not only student drinkers, but their peers as well (Abbey, 2002;Hingson et at., 2002Hingson et at., , 2005 Meilman, 1993;Perkins, 2002;Wechsler et al., 1998aWechsler et al., , 2002.This study tests an explanatory model of both proximal and distal psychosocial and behavioral protective factors and risk factors as an account of heavy episodic drinking in a college student sample. It also investigates whether developmental change in these protective and risk factors is related to change in heavy episodic drinking over the first 2 years of college. In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the role of protective factors and risk factors in influencing adolescents' involvement in pr...

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“…Much of this research has documented more similarities than differences across ethnic groups (Avenevoli et al, 1999;Bray et al, 2001;Costa et al, 1999;Gottfredson & Koper, 1997;Herman et al, 1997;Roski et al, 1997) but some do report differences (Griesler & Kandel, 1998;Pilgrim et al, 1999;Vega et al, 1998). Overall, studies of direct effects suggest similarity across ethnicity in the developmental processes of substance use, but of course, this cannot be assumed only by an examination of direct relationships between predictors and substance use.…”

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