terparts (Grisso, Kelsey, & others, 1994).
Peer-group attitudes appear to have a significant influence on the psychology, level, and style of drinking among African Americans. Lo and Globetti (1993) describe a longitudinal study of high-school students who began college (at a predominantly black university) as nondrinkers and who either did nor did not become drinkers while at college. Those who did not start drinking were positively associated with the presence of a nondrinking acquaintance who discouraged them from drinking, while those who did start drinking had no such acqua
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