@article{ref1,
title="The Effect of Pubertal and Psychosocial Timing on Adolescents' Alcohol Use: What Role Does Alcohol-Specific Parenting Play?",
journal="Journal of youth and adolescence",
year="2011",
author="Schelleman-Offermans, Karen and Knibbe, Ronald A. and Engels, Rutger C. M. E. and Burk, William J.",
volume="40",
number="10",
pages="1302-1314",
abstract="In scientific literature, early pubertal timing emerges as a risk factor of adolescents' drinking, whereas alcohol-specific rules (the degree to which parents permit their children to consume alcohol in various situations) showed to protect against adolescents' drinking. This study investigated whether alcohol-specific rules mediate and/or moderate the effect that early pubertal and psychosocial timing (personal, relational, socio-institutional) has on adolescents' alcohol use. Mediation and moderation models were tested conducting ordinal logistic structural equation modeling in a cross-sectional sample of 1,893 Dutch adolescents (49% males), aged 13-15 years. Findings showed that early pubertal, relational and socio-institutional timers were at greater risk to initiate alcohol use and for heavy episodic drinking. Alcohol-specific rules more often mediated, rather than moderated, the effect of early timing on alcohol use. Alcohol-specific rules are mostly relaxed when adolescents mature, rather than reinforced, indicating that parents partly facilitate adolescents' drinking.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0047-2891",
doi="10.1007/s10964-011-9655-5",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10964-011-9655-5"
}