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Effects of Deviant Peer Association on Adolescent Alcohol Consumption: A Growth Mixture Modeling Analysis

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This study examined concurrent and lagged effects of deviant peer association on levels of alcohol use for distinctive trajectories of drinking from ages 14–18 years, while controlling for age, paternal education, community size, and conduct problems. Longitudinal data were available from a secondary data archive of male and female German adolescents (N = 1,619). Conditional latent growth mixture modeling analysis indicated consistent concurrent effects of deviant peer association (specified as time-varying covariate) on alcohol use for the regular users group, but not any of the other drinking trajectory groups. Very few lagged effects of deviant peers association on alcohol use were found, and thus the social influence hypothesis received little empirical support. Overall, findings suggest the need to consider heterogeneity in the study of peer characteristics and alcohol use for both male and female adolescents.

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  1. Participant loss primarily occurred for two reasons (both a consequence of German unification). First, families moved away from the city of Leipzig from 1990 onward, usually to West Germany (see also Sahner 1996; Statistisches Landesamt des Freistaates Sachsen 2002). Second, the East German school system was restructured in 1990–1991 (Kuhnke 1997).

  2. As of July 1991, the equivalent amounts in USD currency were: The median per capita household income was $344.92 per month (ranging from $57.40 to $1069.54).

  3. Note that the recall periods differed between our measures of alcohol consumption (last 4 weeks) and deviant peer affiliation (past 12 months). Hence, the significant concurrent effects of deviant peer affiliation on alcohol consumption could also be interpreted as indicating lagged effects.

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This research was supported by German National Science Foundation Grant No. Si 296/32–1 awarded to Rainer K. Silbereisen.

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Wiesner, M., Silbereisen, R.K. & Weichold, K. Effects of Deviant Peer Association on Adolescent Alcohol Consumption: A Growth Mixture Modeling Analysis. J Youth Adolescence 37, 537–551 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-007-9263-6

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