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Trajectories of Early Binge Drinking: A Function of Family Cohesion and Peer Use
Author(s) -
Soloski Kristy L.,
Kale Monk J.,
Durtschi Jared A.
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of marital and family therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.868
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1752-0606
pISSN - 0194-472X
DOI - 10.1111/jmft.12111
Subject(s) - binge drinking , psychology , young adult , peer group , psychological intervention , longitudinal study , demography , injury prevention , developmental psychology , poison control , clinical psychology , medicine , psychiatry , environmental health , pathology , sociology
Using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, we tested latent growth models examining whether the number of friends using alcohol and family cohesion were linked with trajectories of binge drinking (N = 3,342) from adolescence (average age 15.06) into young adulthood (average age 27.93). Adolescents with higher family cohesion had lower rates of binge drinking in adolescence (b = −.07, p < .05), while those with more friends drinking alcohol were more likely to binge drink in adolescence (b = .51, p < .001), young adulthood (b = .22, p < .001), and had increasing trajectories of binge drinking across 14 years (b = −.29, p < .001). Clinically, we discuss Multiple‐Family Group Interventions as a potential approach.