405
Views
7
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Original Articles

Changes in peer norms as a mediator of reduction in adolescent alcohol use

ORCID Icon, &

References

  • Baer, J. S., & Carney, M. M. (1993). Biases in the perceptions of the consequences of alcohol use among college students. Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 54(1), 54–60.
  • Barnett, L. A., Far, J. M., Mauss, A. L., & Miller, J. A. (1996). Changing perceptions of peer norms as a drinking reduction program for college students. Journal of Alcohol and Drug Education, 41, 39–62.
  • Bonomo, Y., Coffey, C., Wolfe, R., Lynskey, M., Bowes, G., & Patton, G. (2001). Adverse outcomes of alcohol use in adolescents. Addiction (Abingdon, England), 96(10), 1485–1496. doi:10.1080/09652140120075215
  • Borsari, B., & Carey, K. B. (2000). Effects of a brief motivational intervention with college student drinkers. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 68(4), 728–733. doi:10.1037/0022-006X.68.4.728
  • Borsari, B., & Carey, K. B. (2001). Peer influences on college drinking: A review of the research. Journal of Substance Abuse, 13(4), 391–424.
  • Brooks-Russell, A., Simons-Morton, B., Haynie, D., Farhat, T., & Wang, J. (2014). Longitudinal relationship between drinking with peers, descriptive norms and adolescent alcohol use. Prevention Science, 15(4), 497–505. doi:10.1007/s11121-013-0391-9
  • Campo, S., Brossard, D., Frazer, M. S., Marchell, T., Lewis, D., & Talbot, J. (2003). Are social norms campaigns really magic bullets? Assessing the effects of students' misperceptions on drinking behavior. Health Communication, 15(4), 481–497. doi:10.1207/S15327027HC1504_06
  • Clapp, J. D., & McDonell, A. L. (2000). The relationship of perceptions of alcohol promotion and peer drinking norms to alcohol problems reported by college students. Journal of College Student Development, 41(1), 19–26.
  • Collins, R. L., Parks, G. A., & Marlatt, G. A. (1985). Social determinants of alcohol consumption: The effects of social interaction and model status on the self-administration of alcohol. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 53(2), 189–200. doi:10.1037/0022-006X.53.2.189
  • D’Amico, E. J., & McCarthy, D. M. (2006). Escalation and initiation of younger adolescents’ substance use: The impact of perceived peer use. Journal of Adolescent Health, 39, 481–487. doi:10.1016/j.jadohealth.2006.02.010
  • Donovan, J. E. (2009). Estimated blood alcohol concentrations for child and adolescent drinking and their implications for screening instruments. Pediatrics, 123(6), e975–e981. doi:10.1542/peds.2008-0027
  • Duan, L., Chou, C. P., Andreeva, V. A., & Pentz, M. A. (2009). Trajectories of peer social influences as long-term predictors of drug use from early through late adolescence. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 38(3), 454–465. doi:10.1007/s10964-008-9310-y
  • Ecker, A. H., Cohen, A. S., & Buckner, J. D. (2017). Overestimation of close friend drinking problems in the prediction of one's own drinking problems. Addictive Behaviors, 64, 107–110. doi:10.1016/j.addbeh.2016.08.038
  • Eisenberg, M. E., Roumbourou, J. W., Catalano, R. F., & Hemphill, S. A. (2014). Social norms in the development of adolescent substance use: A longitudinal analysis of the International Youth Development Study. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 43(9), 1486–1497.
  • Elek, E., Miller-Day, M., & Hecht, M. L. (2006). Influences of personal, injunctive, and descriptive norms on early adolescent substance use. Journal of Drug Issues, 36(1), 147–172. doi:10.1177/002204260603600107
  • Henry, D. B., Kobus, K., & Schoeny, M. E. (2011). Accuracy and bias in adolescents’ perceptions of friends substance use. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 25(1), 80–89. doi:10.1037/a0021874
  • Hingson, R. W., & Zha, W. (2009). Age of drinking onset, alcohol use disorders, frequent heavy drinking, and unintentionally injuring oneself and others after drinking. Pediatrics, 123(6), 1477–1484. doi:10.1542/peds.2008-2176
  • Imai, K., Keele, L., & Tingley, D. (2010). A general approach to causal mediation analysis. Psychological Methods, 15(4), 309–334. doi:10.1037/a0020761
  • Jackson, K. M., Roberts, M. E., Colby, S. M., Barnett, N. P., Abar, C. C., & Merrill, J. E. (2014). Willingness to drink as a function of peer offers and peer norms in early adolescence. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 75, 404–414. doi:10.15288/jsad.2014.75.404
  • Kazdin, A. E. (2007). Mediators and mechanisms of change in psychotherapy research. Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, 3(1), 1–27. doi:10.1146/annurev.clinpsy.3.022806.091432
  • Kelly, A. B., Chan, G. C. K., Toumbourou, J. W., O'Flaherty, M., Homel, R., Patton, G. C., & Williams, J. (2012). Very young adolescents and alcohol: Evidence of a unique susceptibility to peer alcohol use. Addictive Behaviors, 37(4), 414–419. doi:10.1016/j.addbeh.2011.11.038
  • LaBrie, J. W., Lewis, M. A., Atkins, D. C., Neighbors, C., Zheng, C., Kenney, S. R., … Larimer, M. E. (2013). RCT of web-based personalized normative feedback for college drinking prevention: Are typical student norms good enough?. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 81(6), 1074–1086. doi:10.1037/a0034087
  • Litt, D. M., & Stock, M. L. (2011). Adolescent alcohol-related risk cognitions: The roles of social norms and social networking sites. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 25(4), 708–713. doi:10.1037/a0024226
  • MacArthur, G. J., Harrison, S., Caldwell, D. M., Hickman, M., & Campbell, R. (2016). Peer‐led interventions to prevent tobacco, alcohol and/or drug use among young people aged 11–21 years: A systematic review and meta‐analysis. Addiction, 111(3), 391–407. doi:10.1111/add.13224
  • Mackinnon, D. P., Fairchild, A. J., & Fritz, M. (2007). Mediation analysis. Annual Review of Psychology, 58, 593–614. doi:10.1146/annurev.psych.58.110405.085542
  • Mattern, J. L., & Neighbors, C. (2004). Social norms campaigns: Examining the relationship between changes in perceived norms and changes in drinking levels. Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 65(4), 489–493. doi:10.15288/jsa.2004.65.489
  • McCambridge, J., McAlaney, J., & Rowe, R. (2011). Adult consequences of late adolescent alcohol consumption: A systematic review of cohort studies. PLoS Medicine, 8(2), e1000413. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1000413
  • McCarty, C. A., Gersh, E., Katzman, K., Lee, C. M., Sucato, G. S., & Richardson, L. P. (2019). Screening and brief intervention with adolescents with risky alcohol use in school-based health centers: A randomized clinical trial of the check yourself tool. Substance Abuse, 18, 1–9.
  • National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. (2011). Alcohol screening and brief intervention for youth: A practitioners guide. Bethesda, MD: National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.
  • Neighbors, C., Dillard, A. J., Lewis, M. A., Bergstrom, R. L., & Neil, T. A. (2006). Normative misperceptions and temporal precedence of perceived norms and drinking. Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 67(2), 290–299. doi:10.15288/jsa.2006.67.290
  • Neighbors, C., Larimer, M. E., & Lewis, M. A. (2004). Targeting misperceptions of descriptive drinking norms: Efficacy of a computer-delivered personalized normative feedback intervention. Journal of Consulting & Clinical Psychology, 72(3), 434–447. doi:10.1037/0022-006X.72.3.434
  • Nesi, J., Rothenberg, W. A., Hussong, A. M., & Jackson, K. M. (2017). Friends’ alcohol-related social networking site activity predicts escalations in adolescent drinking: Mediation by peer norms. Journal of Adolescent Health, 60(6), 641–647. doi:10.1016/j.jadohealth.2017.01.009
  • Perkins, H. W., & Craig, D. W. (2006). A successful social norms campaign to reduce alcohol misuse among college student-atheletes. Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 67(6), 880–889. doi:10.15288/jsa.2006.67.880
  • Perkins, H. W., Linkenbach, J. W., Lewis, M. A., & Neighbors, C. (2010). Effectiveness of social norms media marketing in reducing drinking and driving: A statewide campaign. Addictive Behaviors, 35(10), 866–874. doi:10.1016/j.addbeh.2010.05.004
  • Perkins, H. W., Meilman, P. W., Leichliter, J. S., Cashin, J. R., & Presley, C. A. (1999). Misperceptions of the norms for the frequency of alcohol and other drug use on college campuses. Journal of American College Health, 47(6), 253–258. doi:10.1080/07448489909595656
  • Perkins, H. W., & Wechsler, J. (1996). Variation in perceived college drinking norms and its impact on alcohol abuse: A nationwide study. Journal of Drug Issues, 26(4), 961–974. doi:10.1177/002204269602600413
  • Preacher, K. J., Rucker, D. D., & Hayes, A. F. (2007). Addressing moderated mediation hypotheses: Theory, methods, and prescriptions. Multivariate Behavioral Research, 42(1), 185–227. doi:10.1080/00273170701341316
  • Schulte, M. T., Monreal, T. K., Kia-Keating, M., & Brown, S. A. (2010). Influencing adolescent social perceptions of alcohol use to facilitate change through a school-based intervention. Journal of Child and Adolescent Substance Abuse, 19(5), 372–390. doi:10.1080/1067828X.2010.515877
  • Song, E.-Y., Smiler, A. P., Wagoner, K. G., & Wolfson, M. (2012). Everyone says it’s OK: Adolescents’ perceptions of peer, parent, and community alcohol norms, alcohol consumption, and alcohol-related consequences. Substance Use & Misuse, 47, 86–98. doi:10.3109/10826084.2011.629704
  • Steinberg, L., & Monahan, K. C. (2007). Age differences in resistance to peer influence. Developmental Psychology, 43(6), 1531–1543. doi:10.1037/0012-1649.43.6.1531
  • Swendson, J., Burstein, M., Case, B., Conway, K. P., Dierker, L., He, J., & Merikangas, K. R. (2012). Use and abuse of alcohol and illicit drugs in US adolescents: Results of the National Comorbidity Survey - adolescent supplement. Archives of General Psychiatry, 69(4), 390–398. doi:10.1001/archgenpsychiatry.2011.1503
  • Thombs, D. L., & Hamilton, M. J. (2002). Effects of a social norm feedback campaign on the drinking norms and behavior of Division I student-athletes. Journal of Drug Education, 32(3), 227–244. doi:10.2190/2UYU-6X9M-RJ65-3YYH
  • Tingley, D., Yamamoto, T., Hirose, K., Keele, L., & Imai, K. (2014). Mediation: R package for causal mediation analysis. Journal of Statistical Software, 59, 1–38.
  • Walker, D. D., Neighbors, C., Rodriguez, L. M., Stephens, R. S., & Roffman, R. A. (2011). Social norms and self-efficacy among heavy using adolescent marijuana smokers. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 25(4), 727–732. doi:10.1037/a0024958

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.