Social facilitation of alcohol subjective effects in adolescents : Associations with subsequent alcohol use

RATIONALE: Laboratory research in adults indicates that alcohol-related subjective effects are enhanced under some social conditions. However, it is unknown whether this "social facilitation" of alcohol effects occurs in adolescents and is associated with alcohol use in the natural ecology.

OBJECTIVES: We examined associations of social facilitation of alcohol-related subjective effects with subsequent alcohol use among a relatively high-risk group of adolescents who reported drinking alcohol both with friends and alone.

METHODS: Los Angeles high school students from a prospective study (N = 142; 51% female; 10th graders) completed a baseline survey that assessed alcohol-related "positive" and "negative" subjective effects in two contexts: social (alcohol with friends) and solitary (alcohol alone); social facilitation was calculated as the difference between social and solitary. Students then completed five semi-annual surveys spanning 30 months (2014-2017) assessing 30-day alcohol use (days used, number of drinks, binge drinking).

RESULTS: Greater social facilitation of positive effects was significantly associated with greater number of alcohol use days (RR [95% CI] = 1.48 [1.19, 1.82]; p < .001), greater number of drinks (RR [95% CI] = 1.38 [1.14, 1.66]; p = .001), and greater odds of binge drinking (OR [95% CI] = 1.75 [1.20, 2.57]; p = .004). Similar associations were found with social positive effects. There were no significant associations between solitary positive effects-or any negative effects-and alcohol use outcomes.

CONCLUSIONS: Social facilitation can be measured outside of the laboratory. Relatively high-risk drinking adolescents who are more susceptible to the social facilitation of subjective alcohol effects are more likely to use more alcohol and binge drink.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:238

Enthalten in:

Psychopharmacology - 238(2021), 3 vom: 01. März, Seite 887-897

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Kirkpatrick, Matthew G [VerfasserIn]
Cho, Junhan [VerfasserIn]
Stone, Matthew D [VerfasserIn]
Bae, Dayoung [VerfasserIn]
Barrington-Trimis, Jessica L [VerfasserIn]
Pang, Raina D [VerfasserIn]
Leventhal, Adam M [VerfasserIn]

Links:

Volltext

Themen:

3K9958V90M
Adolescents
Alcohol
Binge drinking
Context
Ethanol
Humans
Journal Article
Social
Subjective effects

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 15.03.2021

Date Revised 29.08.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1007/s00213-020-05740-4

funding:

Förderinstitution / Projekttitel:

PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM319685276