202209101833 Adolescent Social Norms and Alcohol Use: Separating Between-and Within-Person Associations to Test Reciprocal Determinism (TRD)

What this paper is about

To date, few studies have assessed the development of perceived drinking norms during adolescence.

To our knowledge, no studies have assessed the development of adolescent injunctive drinking norms.

Reciprocal determinism thus provides an account of how an adolescent’s alcohol use and perceived drinking norms reinforce each other across time.

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To our knowledge, this study is the first to demonstrate significant growth in injunctive norms during adolescence, suggesting that adolescents perceived approval of drinking as well as perceived normativeness of drinking increases with age.

Our findings provided strong support for between-person associations between descriptive norms and alcohol use and injunctive norms and alcohol use in the form of growth factor covariances.

Nonsignificant variability in W3 injunctive norms precluded assessing its relationship with growth in alcohol use. These findings are in line with prior work demonstrating that growth in descriptive norms and alcohol use during adolescence are related and is the first study, to our knowledge, to demonstrate that growth in injunctive norms and alcohol are related during adolescence.

Moreover, support for reciprocal associations between perceived drinking norms and alcohol use from early through late adolescence supports reciprocal determinism in that social norms and alcohol use both shape and are shaped by one another.

Interestingly, findings suggest that the strength of the association between norms and alcohol use and alcohol use and norms does not change across adolescence despite considerable differences in the rates of alcohol use, alcohol accessibility, social contexts of alcohol use, and acceptability of drinking from early to late adolescence.

Findings from this study point to the importance of future work accounting for underlying growth processes in descriptive and injunctive social norms when assessing reciprocal associations.

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迄今为止，很少有研究评估青春期饮酒规范的发展。

据我们所知，没有研究评估青少年禁令饮酒规范的发展。

因此，互惠决定论解释了青少年的酒精使用和感知的饮酒规范如何随着时间的推移而相互加强。

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据我们所知，这项研究是第一个证明青春期禁令规范显着增长的研究，表明青少年对饮酒的认可以及饮酒的规范性随着年龄的增长而增加。

我们的研究结果为描述性规范与酒精使用之间的人与人之间的关联以及以生长因子协方差形式存在的禁令规范和酒精使用提供了强有力的支持。

W3禁令规范中的不显着变异性排除了评估其与酒精使用增长的关系。这些发现与先前的工作一致，表明描述性规范的增长和青春期的酒精使用是相关的，并且据我们所知，这是第一项证明禁令规范的增长和酒精在青春期相关的研究。

此外，支持从青春期早期到晚期的饮酒规范与酒精使用之间的相互关联，支持互惠决定论，因为社会规范和酒精使用都相互塑造和塑造。

有趣的是，研究结果表明，尽管在酒精使用率，酒精可及性，酒精使用的社会背景以及从青春期早期到晚期饮酒的可接受性方面存在相当大的差异，但规范与酒精使用和酒精使用与规范之间的关联强度并未发生变化。

这项研究的结果表明，在评估互惠关联时，未来工作的重要性在于在描述性和禁令性社会规范中考虑潜在的增长过程。

[[三元互惠决定论Triadic Reciprocal Determinism]]