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Katherine B. Novak

Adolescents

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Parental And Peer Influences On Adolescent Drinking: The Relative Impact Of Attachment And Opportunity, Lizabeth A. Crawford, Katherine B. Novak Sep 2014

Parental And Peer Influences On Adolescent Drinking: The Relative Impact Of Attachment And Opportunity, Lizabeth A. Crawford, Katherine B. Novak

Katherine B. Novak

The purpose of this paper was to assess the relative effects of parents and peers on adolescent alcohol use via mechanisms of attachment and opportunity. Panel data from the second and third waves of the National Education Longitudinal Survey (NELS:88) were used to examine the relationship between multiple measures of peer and parent-child relations reflecting these concepts and alcohol use among high-school students. Overall, our results indicated that peers are more influential than parents in shaping adolescents’ patterns of alcohol consumption and that unstructured peer interaction is an especially powerful predictor of adolescent alcohol use and binge drinking. Our findings …

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The Effects Of Routine Activities And Bonds To Society On Adolescent Alcohol And Marijuana Use, Katherine Novak Jul 2005

The Effects Of Routine Activities And Bonds To Society On Adolescent Alcohol And Marijuana Use, Katherine Novak

Katherine B. Novak

Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Philadelphia, PA, August 13-16, 2005.

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Reconceptualizing Involvement As Patterns Of Routine Activities: The Relative Impact Of Opportunity And Bonds To Society On Adolescent Drinking, Katherine Novak Jul 2002

Reconceptualizing Involvement As Patterns Of Routine Activities: The Relative Impact Of Opportunity And Bonds To Society On Adolescent Drinking, Katherine Novak

Katherine B. Novak

Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Chicago, IL, August 16-19, 2002.

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