The associations between parenting practices and adolescent alcohol use across mid-and late adolescence : A cohort study from Sweden
(2025) In International Journal of Alcohol and Drug Research 13(1). p.21-27- Abstract
Background and aims: The aim of the present study is to examine the association between parenting practices and adolescent alcohol use in a longitudinal sample of adolescents from Sweden. Data and methods: A prospective longitudinal sample of 3,685 adolescents in a nationwide study in Sweden (2017-2019) filled out questionnaires. Baseline data (T1; 2017) was collected from participants at age 15 to 16 years, and a two-year follow-up (T2; 2019) was conducted at age 17 to 18 years. Alcohol use was measured with AUDIT-C. Parental support and monitoring were measured at both time points with two questions for each dimension. Cross-sectional and prospective associations were examined using linear regressions. Results: In the cross-sectional... (More)
Background and aims: The aim of the present study is to examine the association between parenting practices and adolescent alcohol use in a longitudinal sample of adolescents from Sweden. Data and methods: A prospective longitudinal sample of 3,685 adolescents in a nationwide study in Sweden (2017-2019) filled out questionnaires. Baseline data (T1; 2017) was collected from participants at age 15 to 16 years, and a two-year follow-up (T2; 2019) was conducted at age 17 to 18 years. Alcohol use was measured with AUDIT-C. Parental support and monitoring were measured at both time points with two questions for each dimension. Cross-sectional and prospective associations were examined using linear regressions. Results: In the cross-sectional analyses, a significant negative association with alcohol consumption was found for parenting practices, i.e., support and monitoring, at both time-points in the crude models. Only monitoring remained significant in the adjusted models. The prospective analyses showed that monitoring at T1 had a significant negative association with alcohol use at T2. Increases in both parenting practices between T1 and T2 were significantly associated with lower alcohol use at T2. Conclusions: Parental support and monitoring during adolescence are closely associated with adolescent drinking. The findings underscore the importance of ongoing parental engagement, particularly in terms of parental monitoring throughout mid-and late adolescence to prevent drinking.
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- Raninen, Jonas ; Stafström, Martin LU ; Grigorian, Karina ; Brunborg, Geir Scott ; Saminathen, Maria Granvik and Kapetanovic, Sabina
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- Contribution to journal
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- adolescent, Alcohol, longitudinal, parenting, survey
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- International Journal of Alcohol and Drug Research
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- 13
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- 1
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- 7 pages
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- scopus:105008327723
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- 1925-7066
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- 10.7895/ijadr.551
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- English
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- Publisher Copyright: © 2025, Kettil Bruun Society for Social and Epidemiological Research on Alcohol. All rights reserved.
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title = {{The associations between parenting practices and adolescent alcohol use across mid-and late adolescence : A cohort study from Sweden}},
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