Table Of ContentROUTLEDGE LIBRARY EDITIONS:
THE ADOLESCENT
Volume 11
ADOLESCENT DRINKING AND
FAMILY LIFE
ADOLESCENT DRINKING AND
FAMILY LIFE
GEOFF LOWE, DAVID R. FOXCROFT
and
DAVID SIBLEY
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ADOLESCENT DRINKING
AND
FAMILY LIFE
Geoff Lowe, David R. Foxcroft and David Sibley
University of Hull, UK
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Lowe, Geoff, 1940-
Adolescent drinking and family life / by Geoff Lowe, David R.
Foxcroft & David Sibley.
p. cm.
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ISBN 3-7186-5413-X (hard). - ISBN 3-7186-5414-8 (soft)
1. Teenagers-Great Britain-Alcohol use. 2. Teenagers-Great
Britain—Family relationships. I. Foxcroft, David R., 1963-
II. Sibley, David.z. III. Title.
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Contents
List of illustrations and tables vii
Preface ix
Acknowledgements xi
Chapter 1: Introduction and outline 1
SECTION 1: ALCOHOL AND TEENAGERS 13
Chapter 2: Alcohol, use and abuse 14
Chapter 3: Alcohol expectancies and reasons for drinking 28
Chapter 4: Psychosocial aspects of teenage drinking 40
SECTION 2: FAMILY DYNAMICS 48
Chapter 5: Family process 49
Chapter 6: The family socialization of teenage alcohol use 74
Chapter 7: Family profiles of teenage drinkers 104
SECTION 3: DOMESTIC SPACE AND FAMILY DYNAMICS 128
Chapter 8: Home environments 129
Chapter 9: Domestic space, modes of control, and problem
drinking 149
SECTION 4: CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS 164
Chapter 10: Teenage drinking: home and family influences 165
Bibliography 182
Author Index 197
Subject Index 200
V
List of illustrations and tables
FIGURES
Figure 5.1: The circumplex model 59
Figure 5.2: A two-dimensional classification of parenting patterns 62
Figure 6.1: The reciprocal relationship between behaviour, person and
the environment 76
Figure 6.2: Odds of being a heavy drinker according to parental
attitude and parental drinking 87
Figure 6.3: Family socialization factors which influence the
development of teenage drinking 88
Figure 6.4: Family socialization: a model for teenage drinking 90
Figure 7.1: Mean drinker score: school year and sex 120
Figure 7.2: Mean drinker score: family support and control 121
Figure 7.3: Mean drinker score: parental attitude and family drinking 122
Figure 7.4: Mean drinker score: selected family profiles 125
Figure 8.1: Mixed and homogenous spatial arrangements 138
Figure 8.2: Private and public spaces in the home environment 140
Figure 9.1: Alternative partitions of domestic space 154
TABLES
Table 3.1: Drinking behaviour - youth trainees 31
Table 3.2: Reasons for drinking: sex and alcohol use 32
Table 3.3: Mean number of reasons: sex and alcohol use 33
Table 5.1: Drinking behaviour variables identified in the meta-analysis 67
Table 5.2: Family variables identified in the meta-analysis 68
Table 5.3: Total significant and non-significant results for the
relationship between drinking behaviour and family
environment 68
Table 6.1: Total significant and non-significant results for the
relationship between adolescent drinking behaviour and
family social learning factors 81
Table 7.1: Drinking behaviour according to weekly consumption for
adult drinkers and teenage drinkers 113
Table 7.2: Drinking behaviour—secondary school students 114
Table 7.3: ANOVA of drinker score and family socialization variables 119
Table 7.4: Seven distinct family profiles 124
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