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Do drinking motives mediate the relationship between neighbourhood characteristics and alcohol use among adolescents

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08/03/2019
Author
Martin, Gina
Inchley, Joanna Catherine
Currie, Candace Evelyn
Keywords
Neighborhood
Deprivation
Drinking motives
Adolescence
Mediation
Multilevel
Urban
Rural
Social cohesion
Disorder
HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare
RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine
RJ Pediatrics
3rd-NDAS
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Adolescents not only vary in their alcohol use behavior but also in their motivations for drinking. Young people living in different neighborhoods may drink for different reasons. The aims of this study were to determine if neighborhood characteristics were associated with adolescent drinking motives, and whether drinking motives mediate the relationship between neighborhood context and regular alcohol use. Data from the Scottish Health Behaviours in School-aged Children 2010 survey of students in their 4th year of secondary school were used. The study included 1119 participants who had data on neighborhood characteristics and had used alcohol in the past year. Students were asked questions about the local area where they lived, their alcohol use, and their motives for drinking alcohol, based on the Drinking Motives Questionnaire Revised Short Form (DMQR-SF). Multilevel multivariable models and structural equation models were used in this study. Coping motives showed significant variation across neighborhoods. Structural equation models showed coping motives mediated the relationships between neighborhood deprivation, living in an accessible small-town, and neighborhood-level disorder with regular alcohol use. Public health policies that improve neighborhood conditions and develop adaptive strategies, aimed at improving alcohol-free methods for young people to cope better with life’s stresses, may be particularly effective in reducing inequalities in adolescent alcohol use if targeted at small towns and areas of increased deprivation.
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Martin , G , Inchley , J C & Currie , C E 2019 , ' Do drinking motives mediate the relationship between neighbourhood characteristics and alcohol use among adolescents ' , International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health , vol. 16 , no. 5 , 853 . https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16050853
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International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16050853
ISSN
1660-4601
Type
Journal article
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Copyright 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Funding: Funding for the Scottish Health Behaviour in School-aged Children was provided by NHS Scotland. This work was also supported by the 600th Anniversary Ph.D. Scholarship which was awarded to Gina Martin by the University of St Andrews.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/17264

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