The Role of Identity in Positive Alcohol Use Attitudes, Risky Drinking, and Alcohol-Related Problems Among Racially/Ethnically Diverse Adolescentsстатья
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Аннотация:Positive attitudes toward alcohol use, risky drinking, and the likelihood of experiencing alcohol-related problems tend to increase during adolescence. Although prior studies suggest that identity coherence protects against, and identity confusion increases, vulnerability to negative health-related outcomes, less is known about how identity coherence and confusion uniquely predict trajectories of positive alcohol-use attitudes, risky drinking, as well as the onset of alcohol-related problems across adolescence—particularly among racially/ethnically diverse youth. In the present study, we examined (a) trajectories of positive alcohol-use attitudes, risky drinking, and the onset timing of alcohol-related problems and (b) the unique predictive effects of identity coherence and identity confusion on these outcomes.