Childhood and adolescent predictors of alcohol use and problems in adolescence and adulthood in the National Child Development StudyAddiction 103 (s1) , 7–22
To identify childhood and adolescent predictors of alcohol use and harmful drinking in adolescence and adulthood.
Previous drinking was controlled in final models to predict change. Drinking was heavier among those with greater childhood and adolescent social advantage (especially females), less harmonious family relationships, more social maladjustment, greater academic performance, less internalizing problems, more truancy and earlier school-leaving plans.
Alcohol use and problems in adulthood can be predicted by indicators of social background, adjustment and behaviour in childhood and adolescence. Results demonstrate that the early roots of adolescent and adult alcohol use behaviours begin in childhood.
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