Adolescent Protective Behavior to Reduce Drug and Alcohol Use, Alcohol-Related Harm and Interpersonal Violence

Autor/inn/en	Buckley, Lisa; Sheehan, Mary; Chapman, Rebekah
Titel	Adolescent Protective Behavior to Reduce Drug and Alcohol Use, Alcohol-Related Harm and Interpersonal Violence
Quelle	In: Journal of Drug Education, 39 (2009) 3, S.289-301 (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0047-2379
Schlagwörter	Drug Use; Drinking; Risk; Adolescents; Violence; Friendship; Intention; Prosocial Behavior; Gender Differences; Student School Relationship; Self Control; Parent Child Relationship + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Drug consumption; Substance abuse; Drogenkonsum; Trinken; Risiko; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Gewalt; Freundschaft; Geschlechterkonflikt; Schüler-Lehrer-Beziehung; Selbstbeherrschung; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung
Abstract	Typically adolescents' friends are considered a risk factor for adolescent engagement in risk-taking. This study took a more novel approach, by examining adolescent friendship as a protective factor. In particular it investigated friends' potential to intervene to reduce risk-taking. Five-hundred-forty adolescents (mean age 13.47 years) were asked about their intention to intervene to reduce friends' alcohol, drug and alcohol-related harms and about psychosocial factors potentially associated with intervening. More than half indicated that they would intervene in friends' alcohol, drug use, alcohol-related harms and interpersonal violence. Intervening was associated with being female, having friends engage in overall less risk-taking and having greater school connectedness. The findings provide an important understanding of increasing adolescent protective behavior as a potential strategy to reduce alcohol and drug related harms. (Contains 1 table.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10