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Sports participation moderates the risk of family-specific negative life events on alcohol use among adolescents: Evidence from the longitudinal MyLife study.
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Addictive Behaviors . Aug2024, Vol. 155, pN.PAG-N.PAG. 1p. - Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- • Alcohol use progressed along quadratic trajectories during adolescence. • Family-specific Negative Life Events (NLE) were associated with greater alcohol use in middle school. • Sports Participation (SP) reduced alcohol use among high-NLE youth in middle school. Negative life events (NLE) have been associated with increased alcohol use (AU) during adolescence. However, whether this risk association may be modified by leisure activities such as sports participation (SP) remains poorly understood. This study examined whether accumulated family-specific NLE in particular were associated with greater AU, and if so, whether SP moderated this association to reduce AU among high-NLE adolescents. We examined five annual assessments from a nationwide cohort of 3,422 Norwegian adolescents (13–15 year-olds; 55.3 % girls at baseline) who participated in the MyLife study. At each assessment, adolescents reported their AU on the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test-Concise (AUDIT-C), the number of family-specific NLE in the past 12 months, SP days in the past 30 days, and multiple sociodemographic and individual-level characteristics (covariates). Changes over time in AU as a function of NLE, SP, and their interaction (NLExSP) were examined with a set of partially nested growth curve models. AU increased non-linearly over time in all models. The fully adjusted best-fitting model showed significant NLExSP interactions (estimate = -0.013, 95% CI [-0.02, −0.006]), such that the initial AUDIT-C scores were lower for high-NLE adolescents with high SP and greater for high-NLE adolescents with low SP. Further, linear increases in AU over time were marginally steeper for high-NLE adolescents with high SP (NLExSPxTime estimate = 0.034, 95% CI [-0.0002, 0.007]). Thus, SP appeared to have a protective role in reducing AU for high-NLE youth primarily during middle school years. Prevention efforts thus may utilize organized sports for youth facing family-specific NLE as a resource early on. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *LIFE change events
*SPORTS participation
*ALCOHOL drinking
*ALCOHOLISM
*TEENAGERS
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- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 03064603
- Volume :
- 155
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Addictive Behaviors
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 177107083
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addbeh.2024.108041