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Modelling alcohol consumption during adolescence using zero inflated negative binomial and decision trees

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Psychology Applied to Legal Context, 2010
Alcohol is currently the most consumed substance among the Spanish adolescent population. Some of the variables that bear an influence on this consumption include ease of access, use of alcohol by friends and some personality factors.
Alfonso Palmer   +3 more
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Drinking perceptions and drinking behaviors among urban black adolescents

open access: yesJournal of Adolescent Health, 1999
To improve understanding of black (African American and Haitian Blacks) adolescents' drinking behaviors and sexual patterns that put them at risk for human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) to determine whether specific cultural differences affect beliefs and behaviors about alcohol use.The study used ethnographic ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Long Term Effects of Minimum Legal Drinking Age Laws on Adult Alcohol Use and Driving Fatalities [PDF]

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We examine whether adult alcohol consumption and traffic fatalities are associated with the legal drinking environment when a person was between the ages of 18 and 20.
Benjamin Yarnoff, Robert Kaestner
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Cognitive and affective empathy in binge drinking during late adolescence.

open access: yesPLoS ONE
Empathy-the ability to understand and share the feelings of others-has been identified as a potential correlate of binge drinking behaviors in adolescence.
Brooke A Lester   +3 more
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Friendship and Social Emotions in Young Adult Finns' Drinking Diaries [PDF]

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In the article we examine the management of social emotions and friendship bonds by analysing the young adults pub and drinking diaries. We assume that emotions that are embodied in the management of friendship ties can be reduced to the emotions of ...
Antti Maunu, Jukka T�rr�nen
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The effects of the social norm on cigarette consumption: evidence from Japan using panel data

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Using Japan’s prefecture-level panel data from 1989-2001, this paper examines the influence of the social norm on a person’s smoking behavior when the complementary relationship between smoking and drinking is taken into account. The key findings through
yamamura, eiji
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The association between implicit alcohol attitudes and drinking behavior is moderated by baseline activation in the lateral prefrontal cortex

open access: yes, 2015
OBJECTIVE Intense alcohol consumption is a risk factor for a number of health problems. Dual-process models assume that self-regulatory behavior such as drinking alcohol is guided by both reflective and impulsive processes.
Gianotti, Lorena   +2 more
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The Effect of Alcohol Consumption on Mortality: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from the Minimum Drinking Age [PDF]

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This paper estimates the effect of alcohol consumption on mortality using the minimum drinking age in a regression discontinuity design. We find that granting legal access to alcohol at age 21 leads to large and immediate increases in several measures of
Carlos Dobkin, Christopher Carpenter
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Emotional Distress May Increase Risk for Self-Medication and Lower Risk for Mood-related Drinking Consequences in Adolescents [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The current study examines indicators of emotional distress and coping that may define sub-populations of adolescents at risk for two potential affect-related mechanisms underlying substance misuse: self-medication and mood-related drinking consequences.
Feagans Gould, Laura   +5 more
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A Study on the Relationships of Drinking Behavior with Health Condition and Family Function -With Thao as Example

open access: yes, 2009
[[abstract]]Background?The alcohol and its emerging problems among Taiwan aborigines not only affect their mental and physical health but also their marriage and family.
hsu ying mien
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