@article{ref1,
title="Adolescent drinking and adolescent stress: a domain-specific relationship in Northern Irish schoolchildren",
journal="Journal of youth studies",
year="2013",
author="McKay, Michael Thomas and Cole, Jon C.",
volume="16",
number="2",
pages="237-256",
abstract="Previous research has suggested an association between heightened levels of stress among adolescents and reduced levels of mental, physical and emotional well-being. This study sought to examine the relationship between 10 domains of adolescent stress and self-reported drinking behaviour. A total of 610 adolescents, aged 12-16 years old, were recruited from high schools in Northern Ireland. In addition to completing questionnaires on drinking behaviour and stress, participants completed questionnaires assessing self-esteem and three domains of self-efficacy. Bivariate results suggested that more problematic drinking was associated with higher levels of stress in 9 out of 10 stress domains. More fully controlled regression analyses revealed a domain-specific relationship between stress and drinking behaviour such that more problematic drinking was associated with more self-reported stress from home life, school attendance and financial pressure, but lower stress from peer pressure and school performance. These results suggest that it is a combination of a heightened occurrence of some stressors and a lower occurrence of others that is associated with more problematic drinking among adolescents. Future prospective research might investigate to what extent these relationships precede and therefore help predict adolescent drinking.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1367-6261",
doi="10.1080/13676261.2012.718432",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13676261.2012.718432"
}