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Mediators and moderators of young adults'drinking
Author(s) -
FROMME KIM,
RUELA ANTHONY
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
addiction
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.424
H-Index - 193
eISSN - 1360-0443
pISSN - 0965-2140
DOI - 10.1111/j.1360-0443.1994.tb00850.x
Subject(s) - psychology , alcohol , perception , peer group , developmental psychology , human factors and ergonomics , alcohol consumption , injury prevention , similarity (geometry) , heavy drinking , poison control , suicide prevention , social psychology , clinical psychology , environmental health , medicine , artificial intelligence , computer science , image (mathematics) , biochemistry , chemistry , neuroscience
Direct effects of modeling and indirect effects of social perception processes have been implicated in the acquisition and maintenance of alcohol use. Parental and peer drinking behavior (assessed from self‐reports), and student perceptions about parent and peer drinking (assessed from student estimates of their parents' and friends' alcohol use) were examined through surveys of college students, their parents, and a same‐sex best friend. Results showed that students' perceptions about their parents' drinking and parents' self‐reported quantity of alcohol consumed mere significant correlates of students' own drinking. Perceptions about their friends' alcohol use were found to mediate the strong correlation between student and friend drinking. Perceived similarity to parents, but not perceived similarity to their friend, moderated the relation between students' alcohol use and their perceptions about the alcohol use of significant others. When parents were asked to estimate the alcohol use of their sons, daughters, and the average college student, they consistently estimated lower consumption for their offspring than for the average student.