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Mexican Adolescents' Alcohol Use, Family Intimacy, and Parent-Adolescent Communication

Kristy Kiel Martyn*, Carol Loveland-Cherry, Antonia Villarruel, Esther Gallegos Cabriales, Yan Zhou, David Ronis, and Brenda Eakin

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: kmartyn{at}umich.edu.


  Abstract
Despite widespread adolescent alcohol use, research on individual and contextual factors among Mexican adolescents is limited. This study describes the relationship between adolescent risk/protective factors, parent-adolescent communication, and their effects on alcohol use of 14- to 17-year-old adolescents living in Mexico (N = 829; 458 girls, 371 boys). In this study, adolescents reported that 55% ever used alcohol, 24% used alcohol in the past 30 days, and 10% reported binge drinking. Adolescents with high family intimacy were less likely to report ever using alcohol and binge drinking. Regression analysis revealed that parent-adolescent communication mediated the effect of family intimacy on overall and binge drinking. Alcohol use prevention with Mexican adolescents should focus on family intimacy and parent-adolescent communication.

First published on March 23, 2009, doi:10.1177/1074840709332865

Journal of Family Nursing 2009;15:152.

A more recent version of this article appeared on May 1, 2009

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