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Sandra M Radin1, Clayton Neighbors, Patricia Silk Walker
1Addictive Behaviors Research Center, University of Washington, Seattle, 98195-1525, USA. sradin@u.washington.edu
Abstract:
This study explored the changing relations among self-worth, peer deviance, and alcohol-related problems in a sample of 224 urban-dwelling, American Indian adolescents. Data were collected annually at 7 time points to test a proposed mediational model. As expected, peer deviance mediated the relation between low self-worth and alcohol-related problems in younger adolescents; however, this relation did not hold as participants became older. In older adolescents, low self-worth and peer deviance directly and independently contributed to alcohol problems. Possible explanations for and implications of these findings are discussed in terms of developmental changes during adolescence.
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