PEER GROUP INFLUENCES UPON ADOLESCENT DRINKING PRACTICES

Parental and Peer Influences on Adolescent Drinking: The Relative Impact of Attachment and Opportunity

Peer Influences on Adolescent Risk Behavior

M.T. Bardo et al. (eds.), Inhibitory Control and Drug Abuse Prevention: From Research to Translation, DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-1268-8_11, © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011 Abstract Moving beyond studies of age differences in “cool” cognitive processes related to risk perception and reasoning, new approaches to understanding adolescent risk behavior highlight the influence of “hot” socia...

Peer and parental influences on adolescent smoking.

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between peer and parental factors and smoking behavior of adolescents in urban cities and to investigate whether there are gender differences. METHODS A stratified and random cluster sampling design was used to obtain a cross-sectional sample of high school students in two urban cities. The sample consisted of 512 Korean adol...

Parent influences on adolescent peer orientation and substance use: the interface of parenting practices and values.

This study examines how experiences in the family domain may magnify or mitigate experiences in the peer domain, and how processes in both milieus may influence adolescent substance use. The data derived from 666 European American mother-adolescent dyads and 510 European American father-adolescent dyads. Consistent with individuation-connectedness theory, mothers' responsiveness lessened their ...

Peer influences on college drinking: a review of the research.

Peer pressure is consistently implicated in the excessive drinking of college students. However, both theory and empirical findings suggest that peer pressure is a combination of three distinct influences: overt offers of alcohol, modeling, and social norms. Overt offers of alcohol can range from polite gestures to intense goading or commands to drink. Modeling occurs when the student's behavio...