Family conflict and negative emotions as risk factors predicting alcohol use among Vietnamese teenagers

ABSTRACT

Background

Teen drinking is a societal concern in Vietnam, which requires more efforts to find out risk factors leading to alcohol drinking among teenagers with hope to prevent or reduce the problem in the country.

Methods

A Binary logistic regression analysis was computed, using a sample of 3978 adolescents aged between 14 and 18 in Vietnam, to examine the impacts of family conflict and negative emotions on alcohol use among the teenagers.

Results

Findings of the main effects revealed that both family conflict and negative emotions were associated with alcohol drinking among Vietnamese adolescents. Specifically, Vietnamese adolescents are more likely to drink alcohol if they have negative emotions or experience family conflict.

Conclusion

The findings of this study have implications for adolescents, parents, local authorities, and social services agencies.

KEYWORDS:

• Alcohol use
• teen drinking
• negative emotions
• family conflict

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Data availability statement

The data that support the findings of this study are available upon reasonable requests.

Additional information

Funding

The author(s) reported there is no funding associated with the work featured in this article.