Leisure-time socializing with peers as a mediator of recent decline in alcohol use in Czech adolescents
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Alternative codes found
RIV/00023752:_____/19:43919994 RIV/00216208:11110/19:10406306
Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14659891.2019.1640304" target="_blank" >10.1080/14659891.2019.1640304</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Leisure-time socializing with peers as a mediator of recent decline in alcohol use in Czech adolescents
Original language description
Background: Significant declines in adolescent alcohol use have recently been observed in Europe. Growing research has focused on explaining the ongoing changes. The aim of the paper was to analyze to what extent the changes in unorganized leisure-time activities, especially a decline in socializing with peers, have affected recent changes in adolescent alcohol use in the Czech Republic. Methods: Samples of 15-16-year-old adolescents, surveyed in 2011 (N-1 = 3,699) and 2015 (N-2 = 2,738) ESPAD studies, were analyzed. A structural equation model was constructed for boys and girls separately to test the mediating effect of changes in the frequency of going out with friends on decline in adolescent binge drinking and alcohol intoxication. Results: The decline in the frequency of going out with friends explained a major part of the decline in alcohol use. The mediating effect was confirmed in both binge drinking and alcohol intoxication, and more pronounced among the girls (65.4-99.6%) compared to boys (51.1-62.7%). Conclusion: Recent changes in unorganized socializing with peers have had a significant effect on alcohol consumption among adolescents. Future research should focus on more in-depth analysis of the complexity of the relationship between face-to-face peer contacts, intensive electronic media communication, and adolescent alcohol use.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
30312 - Substance abuse
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Journal of Substance Use
ISSN
1465-9891
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
24
Issue of the periodical within the volume
6
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
8
Pages from-to
630-637
UT code for WoS article
000476357700001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85072138061