Examining Adolescent Drinking and Adolescents' Perceptions of Parental Monitoring, Communication, and Parenting Style in a Rural Setting

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dc.contributor.authorPerozzi, Maria Elenaen
dc.contributor.committeechairHuebner, Angela J.en
dc.contributor.committeememberStith, Sandra M.en
dc.contributor.committeememberMcCollum, Eric E.en
dc.contributor.departmentHuman Developmenten
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-14T20:44:00Zen
dc.date.adate2007-09-04en
dc.date.available2014-03-14T20:44:00Zen
dc.date.issued2007-08-10en
dc.date.rdate2007-09-04en
dc.date.sdate2007-08-22en
dc.description.abstractResearch has found that adolescent substance use is highly prevalent in both urban and rural populations and that parenting processes can affect adolescent substance use. The majority of the research pertains to adolescents in urban populations, however. This study explores how adolescents' perceptions of parental monitoring, parent-adolescent communication, and parenting style are related to adolescent frequency of alcohol consumption and binge-drinking in a rural population in Virginia. A sample (n = 3,472) of 7th-12th grade males and females from six counties were examined via secondary data analysis. Bivariate correlations revealed significant correlations between parental monitoring and communication with both types of drinking in that those reporting higher levels of perceived monitoring and communication reported lower levels of alcohol consumption and binge-drinking. Authoritative parenting was only significantly correlated with frequency of alcohol consumption. Linear regression analyses revealed that parental monitoring accounted for most of the variance with both drinking variables. Effects of gender and grade are discussed.en
dc.description.degreeMaster of Scienceen
dc.identifier.otheretd-08222007-132843en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-08222007-132843/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/34701en
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.relation.haspart01PerozziThesis.pdfen
dc.relation.haspart02PerozziIRBApproval.pdfen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectCommunicationen
dc.subjectMonitoringen
dc.subjectAdolescenceen
dc.subjectDrinkingen
dc.subjectParenting Stylesen
dc.subjectParentsen
dc.subjectRuralen
dc.titleExamining Adolescent Drinking and Adolescents' Perceptions of Parental Monitoring, Communication, and Parenting Style in a Rural Settingen
dc.typeThesisen
thesis.degree.disciplineHuman Developmenten
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.levelmastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Scienceen

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