Accounting for the Association of Family Conflict and Heavy Alcohol Use Among Adolescent Girls: The Role of Depressed Mood | Zendy

Gary Chan | Zendy; Adrian B. Kelly | Zendy; John W. Toumbourou | Zendy

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Accounting for the Association of Family Conflict and Heavy Alcohol Use Among Adolescent Girls: The Role of Depressed Mood

Author(s) -

Gary Chan,

Adrian B. Kelly,

John W. Toumbourou

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

journal of studies on alcohol and drugs

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.026

H-Index - 125

eISSN - 1938-4114

pISSN - 1937-1888

DOI - 10.15288/jsad.2013.74.396

Subject(s) - mood , poison control , psychology , injury prevention , suicide prevention , clinical psychology , ethnic group , family conflict , psychiatry , medicine , demography , developmental psychology , environmental health , sociology , anthropology

Heavy alcohol use increases dramatically at age 14, and there is emerging cross-sectional evidence that when girls experience family conflict at younger ages (11-13 years) the risk of alcohol use and misuse is high. This study evaluated the role of family conflict and subsequent depressed mood in predicting heavy alcohol use among adolescent girls.

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