TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2006//
TI  - High School Drinker Typologies Predict Alcohol Involvement and Psychosocial Adjustment During Acclimation to College
JO  - Journal of youth and adolescence
A1  - Hersh, Matthew A.
A1  - Hussong, Andrea M.
SP  - 741
EP  - 754
VL  - 35
IS  - 5
N2  - This study examined differences among distinct types of high school drinkers on their alcohol involvement and psychosocial adjustment during the first semester of college. Participants were 147 college freshmen (66% female; 86% Caucasian) from a large Southeastern public university who reported on high school drinking and college stress, affect, drinking, and parenting. We used person-centered analyses to reveal relative stability in drinker typologies over the college transition and found some support for the lay-theory that restrictive parenting moderates this stability, with abstainers reacting against restrictive parenting in college through alcohol use. Finally, findings supported Block and Block's (1980) theory of ego-control and resilience such that high school experimenters showed better adaptation than abstainers and heavier users on indices of negative and positive affect. We discuss implications for a person-centered approach to the study of alcohol involvement during the college transition and the need to incorporate parenting constructs in college alcohol use research.    <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0047-2891
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -