Teenage Alcoholism
Article 1: Strandberg, A. K. & Bodin, M. C. (2011). “Alcohol-Specific Parenting within a Cluster Randomized Effectiveness Trial of a Swedish Primary Prevention Program.” Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 111 (2), 92-102.
With in mind that teenage alcoholism is to blame for some life problems that occur later in life and that parents have a significant influence on under-age drinking habits, Strandberg, A. K. & Bodin, M. C. investigated the attitudes of parents towards teenage drinking. The research was based on an ongoing trial of the effectiveness of a parental-based under-age drinking prevention program that underscores the role of parents in teenage drinking. The program- one of the widely used in Sweden is famously dubbed Örebro Prevention Program (ÖPP) after Örebro University- the institution in which it was pioneered. Though not stated in the paper, the concluding remarks by the researchers insightfully indicate that their research question was centered on the effect of ÖPP on Swedish parents’ attitude towards teenage alcoholism. Strandberg and Bodin‘s sampled over 1200 14-year-olds and parents. The data was collected with the help of non-parametric tests administered to 40 students in the participating municipal schools, and was collected at a 12-month follow-up. The 1,239 pairs of responses were analyzed using SPSS 18.0 with some analyses done using baseline data. Pearson’s Chi2 and Mann-Whitney U-test were used to analyze dichotomized data and ordinal data respectively.
Article 2: Cismaru, M., Lavack, A. M. & Markewich, E. (2008). “Alcohol Consumption among Young Consumers: A Review and Recommendations.” Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 9(4), 282-296. doi: 10.1108/17473610810920498
Teenage alcoholism is widely recognized as one of the major enemies of development. To curb this vice, several campaign strategies that make use of a plethora of communication materials have been devised with some of the campaigns not adhering to the stipulates of the protection motivation theory. The research by Cismaru, Lavack and Markewich falls under the topic of teenage alcoholism and aims at providing apt answers to questions relating to the effectiveness of social marketing programs in combating alcohol teenage consumption. The research also intended to institute how protection motivation theory can be employed to formulate communications targeting teenagers in light of teenage alcoholism. Five English speaking countries (the UK, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and USA) were selected for the research. Using key words like “underage drinking”, “campaign”, and “program”, the researchers searched the internet for relevant communication materials used for youth-alcohol-prevention-campaigns in the selected countries. This was then followed by a qualitative analysis of the internet-search findings to ascertain the communication materials’ adherence to the protection motivation theory in this research that incorporated no statistical analysis.
Article 3: Cintina, I. (2011). The Effect of Minimum Legal Drinking Age Restrictions on Teenage Fertility. University of Hawaii Economic Research Organization (Working Paper No. 2011-6). Retrieved from www.uhero.hawaii.edu/assets/WP_2011-6.pdf
According to Cintina (2011), formulation of public policies should put into consideration teen childbearing. Because of the principal influence that alcohol has on teen pregnancy, it becomes increasingly critical to investigate the effect of minimum drinking age restriction on teenage fertility. The overarching research question for this research relates to how drinking-age-restriction affects the number of teenage pregnancies in the United States. The researcher hypothesizes that a stringent drinking-age-restriction leads to binge alcohol drinking hence increase in the number of incidences of teenage pregnancies while a more relaxed drinking age restriction leads to responsible drinking hence less teenage pregnancies incidences. Cintini’s research is based on micro-level data of age restriction and teenage pregnancies for the period between 1973 to 1988, for instance the 1979 cohort of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY), which sampled over 12,600 youths of ages between 14 and 22. NLSY79 as it is trivially known, whose intention was to determine the number of intended and unintended pregnancies with their accompanying reasons (Carlson & England, 2011). The researcher then carried out discrete-time hazard modeling on the data to establish the probability of pregnancy occurring in each period with regards changes in drinking-age-restriction that occurred within the period.
References
Carlson, M. J., & England, P. (2011). Social Class and Changing Families in an Unequal America. California, CA: Stanford University Press.
Cintina, I. (2011). The Effect of Minimum Legal Drinking Age Restrictions on Teenage Fertility. University of Hawaii Economic Research Organization (Working Paper No. 2011-6). Retrieved from www.uhero.hawaii.edu/assets/WP_2011-6.pdf
Cismaru, M., Lavack, A. M. & Markewich, E. (2008). “Alcohol Consumption among Young Consumers: A Review and Recommendations.” Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 9(4), 282-296. doi: 10.1108/17473610810920498
Strandberg, A. K. & Bodin, M. C. (2011). “Alcohol-Specific Parenting within a Cluster Randomized Effectiveness Trial of a Swedish Primary Prevention Program.” Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 111 (2), 92-102. doi; 10.1108/09654281111108526.
