Why is adolescent drinking declining? A systematic review and narrative synthesis

References

• Anderson P, de Bruijn A, Angus K, Gordon R, Hastings G. 2009. Impact of alcohol advertising and media exposure on adolescent alcohol use: a systematic review of longitudinal studies. Alcohol Alcoholism. 44(3):229–243.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Arkes J. 2007. Does the economy affect teenage substance use? Health Econ. 16(1):19–36.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Arnett JJ. 2018. Getting better all the time: trends in risk behavior among American adolescents since 1990. Arch Sci Psychol. 6(1):87.
   Google Scholar
• Babor T, Babor TF, Caetano R, Casswell S, Edwards G, Grube JW, Giesbrecht N. 2010. Alcohol: no ordinary commodity: research and public policy. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Bachman JG, Johnson LD, O'malley PM. 1998. Explaining recent increases in students' marijuana use: impacts of perceived risks and disapproval, 1976 through 1996. Am J Public Health. 88(6):887–892.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Barnes GM, Hoffman JH, Welte JW, Farrell MP, Dintcheff BA. 2006. Effects of parental monitoring and peer deviance on substance use and delinquency. J Marriage Family. 68(4):1084–1104.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Beck KH, Arria AM, Caldeira KM, Vincent KB, O'Grady KE, Wish ED. 2008. Social context of drinking and alcohol problems among college students. AJHB. 32(4):420–430.
   Google Scholar
• Bhattacharya A. 2016. Youthful abandon: why are young people drinking less. IAS. UK: www.ias.org.uk.
   Google Scholar
• Brand DA, Saisana M, Rynn LA, Pennoni F, Lowenfels AB. 2007. Comparative analysis of alcohol control policies in 30 countries. PLoS Med. 4(4):e151.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Cabassa LJ. 2003. Measuring acculturation: where we are and where we need to go. Hispanic J Behav Sci. 25(2):127–146.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Cable N, Sacker A. 2007. Typologies of alcohol consumption in adolescence: predictors and adult outcomes. Alcohol Alcohol. 43(1):81–90.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Chan GCK, Leung J, Connor J, Hall W, Kelly AB. 2017. Parental supply of alcohol and adolescent drinking: a multilevel analysis of nationally representative data. BMC Public Health. 17(1):560.
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Chuang Y-C, Ennett ST, Bauman KE, Foshee VA. 2005. Neighborhood influences on adolescent cigarette and alcohol use: mediating effects through parent and peer behaviors. J Health Soc Behav. 46(2):187–204.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Clark T, Fleming T, Bullen P, Crengle S, Denny S, Dyson B, Peiris-John R, Robinson E, Rossen F, Sheridan J. 2013. Health and well-being of secondary school students in New Zealand: trends between 2001, 2007 and 2012. J Paediatr Child Health. 49(11):925–934.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Crost B, Guerrero S. 2012. The effect of alcohol availability on marijuana use: evidence from the minimum legal drinking age. J Health Econ. 31(1):112–121.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Currie C, Zanotti C, Morgan A, Currie D, De Looze M, Roberts C, Barnekow V. 2009. Social determinants of health and well-being among young people. Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children (HBSC) Study: international Report from the, 2010.:271.
   Google Scholar
• de Goeij MC, Jacobs MA, van Nierop P, van der Veeken-Vlassak IA, van de Mheen D, Schoenmakers TM, Harting JK, Anton E. 2016. Impact of cross-sectoral alcohol policy on youth alcohol consumption. J Stud Alcohol Drugs. 77(4):596–605.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• de Looze M, van Dorsselaer SA, Monshouwer K, Vollebergh WA. 2017. Trends in adolescent alcohol use in the Netherlands, 1992–2015: differences across sociodemographic groups and links with strict parental rule-setting. Int J Drug Policy. 50:90–101.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• de Looze M, Vermeulen-Smit E, ter Bogt TFM, van Dorsselaer SAFM, Verdurmen J, Schulten I, Engels RCME, Vollebergh WAM. 2014. Trends in alcohol-specific parenting practices and adolescent alcohol use between 2007 and 2011 in the Netherlands. Int J Drug Policy. 25(1):133–141.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Disney LD, LaVallee RA, Hsiao-Ye Y. 2013. The effect of internal possession laws on underage drinking among high school students: a 12-state analysis. Am J Public Health. 103(6):1090–1095.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Elgar FJ, Phillips N, Hammond N. 2011. Trends in alcohol and drug use among Canadian adolescents, 1990–2006. Can J Psychiatry. 56(4):243–247.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Esser MB, Clayton H, Demissie Z, Kanny D, Brewer RD. 2017. Current and binge drinking among high school students - United States, 1991–2015. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 66(18):474–478.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Gardner F, Collishaw S, Maughan B, Scott J, Schepman K, Hagell A. 2012. Trends in parenting: can they help explain time trends in problem behaviour? Bristol: Policy Press.
   Google Scholar
• Gilligan C, Kuntsche E, Gmel G. 2012. Adolescent drinking patterns across countries: associations with alcohol policies. Alcohol Alcoholism. 47(6):732–737.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Grenard JL, Dent CW, Stacy AW. 2013. Exposure to alcohol advertisements and teenage alcohol-related problems. 131(2):369(11).
   Google Scholar
• Gripe I, Danielsson AK, Ramstedt M. 2018. Are changes in drinking related to changes in cannabis use among Swedish adolescents? A time series analysis for the period 1989 − 2016. Addiction. 113(9):1643.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Grube JW, Nygaard P. 2001. Adolescent drinking and alcohol policy. Contemporary Drug Problems. 28(1):87–131.
   Google Scholar
• Hallgren M, Leifman H, Andreasson S. 2012. Drinking less but greater harm: could polarized drinking habits explain the divergence between alcohol consumption and harms among youth? Alcohol Alcoholism. 47(5):581–590.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Hanewinkel R, Sargent JD. 2009. Longitudinal study of exposure to entertainment media and alcohol use among German adolescents. Pediatrics. 123(3):989.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Harding FM, Hingson RW, Klitzner M, Mosher JF, Brown J, Vincent RM, Dahl E, Cannon CL. 2016. Underage drinking: a review of trends and prevention strategies. Am J Preven Med. 51(4):S148–S157.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Jackson N, Denny S, Sheridan J, Fleming T, Clark T, Peiris-John R, Ameratunga S. 2017. Uneven reductions in high school students' alcohol use from 2007 to 2012 by age, sex, and socioeconomic strata. Substance Abuse. 38(1):69–76.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Johnston LD, Miech RA, O'Malley PM, Bachman JG, Schulenberg JE, Patrick ME. 2018. Monitoring the Future national survey results on drug use, 1975–2017. Overview, key findings on adolescent drug use.
   Google Scholar
• Jones A. 2017. Rising beer prices are turning pubs into an 'unaffordable luxury'. Independent UK.
   Google Scholar
• Kelly AB, Chan GC, Weier M, Quinn C, Gullo MJ, Connor JP, Hall WD. 2016. Parental supply of alcohol to Australian minors: an analysis of six nationally representative surveys spanning 15 years. BMC Public Health. 16(1):325.
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Keyes KM, Jager J, Hamilton A, O’Malley PM, Miech R, Schulenberg JE. 2015. National multi-cohort time trends in adolescent risk preference and the relation with substance use and problem behavior from 1976 to 2011. Drug Alcohol Depend. 155:267–274.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Knee CR, Neighbors C. 2002. Self‐determination, perception of peer pressure, and drinking among college students 1. J Appl Social Pyschol. 32(3):522–543.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kraus L, Nociar A. 2016. ESPAD Report 2015. Results from the European school survey project on alcohol and other drugs. European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction.
   Google Scholar
• Kraus L, Room R, Livingston M, Pennay A, Holmes J, Törrönen J. 2019. Long waves of consumption or a unique social generation? Exploring recent declines in youth drinking. Addic Res Theory. DOI:10.1080/16066359.2019.1629426
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kristjansson AL, Sigfusdottir ID, Thorlindsson T, Mann MJ, Sigfusson J, Allegrante JP. 2016. Population trends in smoking, alcohol use and primary prevention variables among adolescents in Iceland, 1997-2014. Addiction. 111(4):645–652.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kuther TL, Higgins-D'Alessandro A. 2003. Attitudinal and normative predictors of alcohol use by older adolescents and young adults. J Drug Educ. 33(1):71–90.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Lanza ST, Vasilenko SA, Dziak JJ, Butera NM. 2015. Trends among U.S. High school seniors in recent marijuana use and associations with other substances: 1976–2013. J Adoles Health. 57(2):198–204.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Larm P, Raninen J, Åslund C, Svensson J, Nilsson KW. 2018. The increased trend of non-drinking alcohol among adolescents: what role do internet activities have? European J Pub Health. 29(1):27–32.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Latendresse SJ, Rose RJ, Viken RJ, Pulkkinen L, Kaprio J, Dick DM. 2008. Parenting mechanisms in links between parents’ and adolescents’ alcohol use behaviors. Alcoholism Clin Exp Res. 32(2):322–330.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Ledoux S, Miller P, Choquet M, Plant M. 2002. Family structure, parent–child relationships, and alcohol and other drug use among teenagers in France and the United Kingdom. Alcohol Alcoholism. 37(1):52–60.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Lewycka S, Clark T, Peiris-John R, Fenaughty J, Bullen P, Denny S, Fleming T. 2018. Downwards trends in adolescent risk-taking behaviours in New Zealand: exploring driving forces for change. J Paediatr Child Health. 54(6):602.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Lintonen T, Karlsson T, Nevalainen J, Konu A. 2013. Alcohol policy changes and trends in adolescent drinking in Finland from 1981 to 2011. Alcohol Alcohol. 48(5):620–626.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Liu Y, Lintonen T, Tynjälä J, Villberg J, Välimaa R, Ojala K, Kannas L. 2018. Socioeconomic differences in the use of alcohol and drunkenness in adolescents: trends in the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children study in Finland 1990–2014. Scand J Public Health. 46(1):102–111.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Livingston M. 2014. Trends in non-drinking among Australian adolescents. Addiction. 109(6):922–929.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Livingston M, Callinan S. 2017. Changing attitudes to alcohol in Australia. J Stud Alcohol Drugs. 78(6):844–852.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Looze MD, Raaijmakers Q, Bogt TT, Bendtsen P, Farhat T, Ferreira M, Godeau E, Kuntsche E, Molcho M, Pfortner T-K. 2015. Decreases in adolescent weekly alcohol use in Europe and North America: evidence from 28 countries from 2002 to 2010. European J Pub Health. 25(suppl 2):69–77.
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Mann C. 2003. Observational research methods. Research design II: cohort, cross sectional, and case-control studies. Emerg Med J. 20(1):54–60.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Mogro-Wilson C. 2008. The influence of parental warmth and control on Latino adolescent alcohol use. Hispanic J Behav Sci. 30(1):89–105.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Moher D, Liberati A, Tetzlaff J, Altman DG. 2009. Preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses: the PRISMA statement. Ann Intern Med. 151(4):264–269.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Monshouwer K, Van Dorsselaer S, Van Os J, Drukker M, De Graaf R, Ter Bogt T, Verdurmen J, Vollebergh W. 2007. Ethnic composition of schools affects episodic heavy drinking only in ethnic‐minority students. Addiction. 102(5):722–729.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Muller S, Piontek D, Pabst A, Baumeister SE, Kraus L. 2010. Changes in alcohol consumption and beverage preference among adolescents after the introduction of the alcopops tax in Germany. Addiction. 105(7):1205–1213.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Nash SG, McQueen A, Bray JH. 2005. Pathways to adolescent alcohol use: family environment, peer influence, and parental expectations. J Adoles Health. 37(1):19–28.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Osaki Y, Tanihata T, Ohida T, Kanda H, Suzuki K, Higuchi S, Kaneita Y, Minowa M, Hayashi K. 2009. Decrease in the prevalence of adolescent alcohol use and its possible causes in Japan: periodical nationwide cross-sectional surveys. Alcoholism Clin Exp Res. 33(2):247–254.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Pabilonia S. 2014. The effects of the Great Recession on teenagers' risky health behaviors and time use. IDEAS Working paper Series from RePEc, 2014.
   Google Scholar
• Pape H, Rossow I, Brunborg GS. 2018. Adolescents drink less: how, who and why? A review of the recent research literature. Drug Alcohol Rev. 37:S98–S114.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Pape H, Rossow I, Storvoll EE. 2009. Under double influence: assessment of simultaneous alcohol and cannabis use in general youth populations. Drug Alcohol Depend. 101(1/2):69–73.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Paschall MJ, Grube JW, Kypri K. 2009. Alcohol control policies and alcohol consumption by youth: a multi‐national study. Addiction. 104(11):1849–1855.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Pennay A, Livingston M, MacLean S. 2015. Young people are drinking less: it is time to find out why. Drug Alcohol Rev. 34(2):115–118.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Pickett W, Molcho M, Elgar FJ, Brooks F, de Looze M, Rathmann K, ter Bogt TFM, Nic Gabhainn S, Sigmundova D, Gaspar de Matos M. 2013. Trends and socioeconomic correlates of adolescent physical fighting in 30 countries. Pediatrics. 131(1):e18–e26.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Raitasalo K, Holmila M. 2017. Practices in alcohol education among Finnish parents: have there been changes between 2006 and 2012? Drugs Edu Preven Policy. 24(5):392–399.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Reich SM, Subrahmanyam K, Espinoza G. 2012. Friending, IMing, and hanging out face-to-face: overlap in adolescents' online and offline social networks. Dev Psychol. 48(2):356.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Rideout VJ, Foehr UG, Roberts DF. 2010. Generation M 2: media in the Lives of 8-to 18-Year-Olds. San Francisco: Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.
   Google Scholar
• Robinson TN, Chen HL, Killen JD. 1998. Television and music video exposure and risk of adolescent alcohol use. Pediatrics. 102(5):E54.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Ross CS, Maple E, Siegel M, DeJong W, Naimi TS, Ostroff J, Padon AA, Borzekowski DLG, Jernigan DH. 2014. The relationship between brand‐specific alcohol advertising on television and brand‐specific consumption among underage youth. Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 38(8):2234–2242.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Ryan SM, Jorm AF, Kelly CM, Hart LM, Morgan AJ, Lubman DI. 2011. Parenting strategies for reducing adolescent alcohol use: a Delphi consensus study. BMC Public Health. 11(1):13.
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Ryder NB. 1985. The cohort as a concept in the study of social change. In Cohort analysis in social research. Amsterdam: Springer; p. 9–44.
   Google Scholar
• Sallis JF, Owen N, Fisher E. 2015. Ecological models of health behavior. Health Behav Theory Res Pract. 5:43–64.
   Google Scholar
• Shortt AL, Hutchinson DM, Chapman R, Toumbourou JW. 2007. Family, school, peer and individual influences on early adolescent alcohol use: First-year impact of the Resilient Families programme. Drug Alcohol Revs. 26(6):625–634.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Spijkerman R, Van den Eijnden RJ, Overbeek G, Engels RC. 2007. The impact of peer and parental norms and behavior on adolescent drinking: the role of drinker prototypes. Psychol Health. 22(1):7–29.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Svensson J, Andersson D-E. 2016. What role do changes in the demographic composition play in the declining trends in alcohol consumption and the increase of non-drinkers among Swedish youth? A time-series analysis of trends in non-drinking and region of origin 1971–2012. Alcohol Alcoholism. 51(2):172–176.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Thombs DL, Wolcott BJ, Farkash LG. 1997. Social context, perceived norms and drinking behavior in young people. J Subs Abuse. 9:257–267.
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Torikka A, Kaltiala-Heino R, Luukkaala T, Rimpela A. 2017. Trends in alcohol use among adolescents from 2000 to 2011: the role of socioeconomic status and depression. Alcohol Alcoholism. 52(1):95–103.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Twenge JM, Park H. 2017. The decline in adult activities among US adolescents. Child Dev. 90(2):638–654.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Van den Bulck J, Beullens K. 2005. Television and music video exposure and adolescent alcohol use while going out. Alcohol Alcohol. 40(3):249–253.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Van Der Vorst H, Engels RC, Deković M, Meeus W, Vermulst AA. 2007. Alcohol‐specific rules, personality and adolescents' alcohol use: a longitudinal person–environment study. Addiction. 102(7):1064–1075.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• van Tubergen F, Poortman A-R. 2010. Adolescent alcohol use in the Netherlands: the role of ethnicity, ethnic intermarriage, and ethnic school composition. Ethnicity Health. 15(1):1–13.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Verhagen CE, Uitenbroek DG, Schreuders EJ, El Messaoudi S, de Kroon ML. 2015. Does a reduction in alcohol use by Dutch high school students relate to higher use of tobacco and cannabis? BMC Public Health. 15:821
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Wagenaar A, Erickson D, Harwood E, Omalley P. 2006. Effects of state coalitions to reduce underage drinking: a national evaluation. Am J Prevent Med. 31(4):307–315.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Wells G, Shea B, O’connell D, Peterson J, Welch V, Losos M, Tugwell P. 2012. The Newcastle-Ottawa Scale (NOS) for assessing the quality of nonrandomised studies in meta-analyses. Ottawa: Ottawa Hospital Research Institute.
   Google Scholar
• White V, Azar D, Faulkner A, Coomber K, Durkin S, Livingston M, Chikritzhs T, Room R, Wakefield M. 2017. Adolescents' exposure to paid alcohol advertising on television and their alcohol use: exploring associations during a 13-year period. Addiction. 112(10):1742–1751.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• White V, Azar D, Faulkner A, Coomber K, Durkin S, Livingston M, Chikritzhs T, Room R, Wakefield M. 2018. Adolescents’ alcohol use and strength of policy relating to youth access, trading hours and driving under the influence: findings from Australia. Addiction. 113(6):1030–1042.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• White V, Faulkner A, Coomber K, Azar D, Room R, Livingston M, Chikritzhs T, Wakefield M. 2015. How has alcohol advertising in traditional and online media in Australia changed? Trends in advertising expenditure 1997–2011. Drug Alcohol Rev. 34(5):521–530.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• WHO. 2018. Adolescent alcohol-related behaviours: trends and inequalities in the WHO European Region, 2002–2014. Copenhagen, Denmark: WHO Regional Office Retrieved from http://www.euro.who.int/en/publications/abstracts/adolescent-alcohol-related-behaviours-trends-and-inequalities-in-the-who-european-region,-20022014-2018.
   Google Scholar
• Zwaluw C, Scholte R, Vermulst A, Buitelaar J, Verkes R, Engels R. 2008. Parental problem drinking, parenting, and adolescent alcohol use. J Behav Med. 31(3):189–200.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar