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Risk factors for elementary school drinking: Pubertal status, personality, and alcohol expectancies concurrently predict fifth grade alcohol consumption.

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Gunn, Rachel L., Smith, Gregory T.·2010·Psychology of Addictive Behaviors

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Little is known about the correlates and potential causes of very early drinking. The authors proposed this risk theory: (a) pubertal onset is associated with increased levels of positive urgency (the tendency to act rashly when experiencing intensely positive mood), negative urgency (the tendency to act rashly when distressed), and sensation seeking; (b) those traits predict increased endorsement of high-risk alcohol expectancies; (c) the expectancies predict drinker status among fifth graders; and (d) the apparent influence of positive urgency, negative urgency, and sensation seeking on drinker status is mediated by alcohol expectancies. The authors conducted a concurrent test of whether the relationships among these variables were consistent with the theory in a sample of 1,843 fifth grade students. In a well-fitting structural model, their hypotheses were supported. Drinker status among fifth graders is not just a function of context and factors external to children: it is predictable from a combination of pubertal status, personality characteristics, and learned alcohol expectancies.

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  • More advanced pubertal status in adolescents is associated with greater involvement in sensation-seeking-related behaviors such as substance use, law-breaking, and laboratory risk taking.

    “recent studies have found that more advanced pubertal status in adolescents is associated with greater involvement in behaviors that are closely related to sensation seeking, such as substance use (Castellanos-Ryan et al., 2013, de Water et al., 2013, Gunn and Smith, 2010), law-breaking (Collado et al., 2014, Kretschmer et al., 2014), and risk taking in laboratory contexts (Collado et al., 2014, K”

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Authors
Gunn, R. L., & Smith, G. T.
Affiliations
University of Kentucky (US)
Venue
Psychology of Addictive Behaviors
Published
2010-12
Volume
24
Issue
4
Pages
617-627
ISSN
  • 0893-164X (ISSN-L)
  • 1939-1501
OpenAlex
W2041497483
Cited by
100
References
66
Citations by year
2025: 2 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 7 · 2021: 9 · 2020: 4 · 2019: 9 · 2018: 5 · 2017: 6 · 2016: 8 · 2015: 9 · 2014: 16 · 2013: 10 · 2012: 5
FWCI
5.13
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Psychology of Addictive Behaviors (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (RO1 AA 016166)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Crime Patterns and Interventions
Keywords
early alcohol use, elementary school students, pubertal stage, puberty onset, positive urgency, negative urgency, sensation seeking, alcohol expectancies, personality traits, fifth grade students
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Alcohol Drinking, Child, Child Behavior, Culture, Female, Humans, Male, Models, Psychological, Motivation, Personality, Puberty, Surveys and Questionnaires, Risk Factors, Students

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