Situational Peer effects on Adolescents' Alcohol Consumption: The Moderating Role of Supervision, Activity Structure, and Personal Moral Rules. Issue 3 (4th March 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Beier, Harald
• Is Part Of: Deviant behavior. Volume 39:Issue 3(2018)
• Page Start: 363
• Page End: 379
• Publication Date: 2018-03-04
• Subjects: Deviant behavior -- Periodicals; 302.54205
• DOI: 10.1080/01639625.2017.1286173
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0163-9625

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Using five waves of unique space-time budget data, this study investigates the relevance of peer presence and behavior on adolescents' alcohol consumption at a situational level, addressing to which degree these situational peer effects are moderated by the setting and by individual differences. Multilevel models, predicting the probability of alcohol consumption in a given hour, show that peers' alcohol misuse is most relevant during unstructured activities while unsupervised. However, individuals differ in their susceptibility to these situational processes, with adolescents holding strong moral convictions against alcohol consumption being basically immune to situational peer effects, even during unstructured and unsupervised activities.