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When Is Sport Participation Risky or Protective for Alcohol Use? The Role of Teammates, Friendships, and Popularity
Author(s) -
Vest Andrea E.,
Simpkins Sandra D.
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
new directions for child and adolescent development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.628
H-Index - 59
eISSN - 1534-8687
pISSN - 1520-3247
DOI - 10.1002/cad.20036
Subject(s) - popularity , alcohol , psychology , athletes , human factors and ergonomics , injury prevention , friendship , peer group , poison control , social psychology , developmental psychology , environmental health , medicine , physical therapy , biochemistry , chemistry
Little is known about how adolescents' peer relations might alter whether sport participation is associated with alcohol use. Consistent with social learning theory, we found that sport participation was protective against alcohol use if these peers had low alcohol use, but athletes were likely to use alcohol if their sport friends and teammates had high alcohol use. Interestingly, those with no or low sport participation seemed to emulate the alcohol use of their non‐sport friends, whereas adolescents in a high number of sports had elevated alcohol use regardless of their non‐sport friends' alcohol use. © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.