Researchers have found that, compared to European Americans, African Americans report
later initiation of drinking, lower rates of use, and lower levels of use across almost all age …

Early adolescence is the key developmental period for the initiation of alcohol use that
progresses on to regular use and problem drinking in midadolescence, later adolescence …

Improving outcomes for children and adolescents with mental health needs demands a
broad meta-systemic orientation to overcome persistent problems in current service systems …

Within the adolescent risk behavior literature, questions remain about relationships among
behaviors in early adolescence, gender, context, and negative social and health outcomes …

Current models of adolescent drinking behavior hypothesize that alcohol expectancies
mediate the effects of other proximal and distal risk factors. This longitudinal study tested the …

Objectives The present study used a cultural and social cognitive conceptual framework to
investigate whether alcohol expectancies and valuations would mediate the associations …

Genetic factors contribute to the intergenerational transmission of alcohol misuse, but not all
individuals at high genetic risk develop problems. The present study examined adolescent …

Earlier age of alcohol use initiation has been consistently associated with later problematic
alcohol use. However, it is unclear what aspect of early initiation is key for risk assessment …

Children's alcohol expectancies shift in late childhood/early adolescence in ways thought to
lead to increased risk for adolescent alcohol use. The precise nature of this shift and the …

African American youth who experience racial discrimination are at heightened risk to use
drugs as a coping response to distress. Based on the buffer-stress hypothesis, we proposed …