Citation
Eitle, Tamela McNulty; Johnson-Jennings, Michelle; & Eitle, David J. (2013). Family Structure and Adolescent Alcohol Use Problems: Extending Popular Explanations to American Indians. Social Science Research. vol. 42 (6) pp. 1467-1479 , PMCID: PMC3761382Abstract
Competing explanations of the relationship between family structure and alcohol use problems are examined using a sample of American Indian adolescents from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. Living in a single-parent family is found to be a marker for the unequal distribution of stress exposure and parental alcohol use, but the effects of other family structures like non-parent families and the presence of under 21-year-old extended family or non-family members emerge or remain as risk or protective factors for alcohol use problems after a consideration of SES, family processes, peer socialization, and social stress. In particular, a non-parent family structure that has not been considered in prior research emerged as a protective family structure for American Indian adolescent alcohol use problems.URL
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0049089X13000926Keyword(s)
American IndiansReference Type
Journal ArticleJournal Title
Social Science ResearchAuthor(s)
Eitle, Tamela McNultyJohnson-Jennings, Michelle
Eitle, David J.