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Teenage Drinking in South‐West Scotland
Author(s) -
McKechnie R. J.,
Cameron D.,
Cameron I. A.,
Drewery J.
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
british journal of addiction to alcohol and other drugs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.424
H-Index - 193
eISSN - 1360-0443
pISSN - 0007-0890
DOI - 10.1111/j.1360-0443.1977.tb00693.x
Subject(s) - peer group , psychology , developmental psychology , demography , sociology
Summary By the age of fourteen most children have tasted alcohol. There is a suggestion that drinking behaviour starts wry early within the family home and progresses in a common manner through other social situations leading to peer group drinking. It is argued that this early experience and progression may be a prerequisite of normal social drinking in later life.