Factors in Alcohol Use in Later Adolescence

In a test of the sociocultural versus medical model of alcoholism, this research examined for the contribution of several selected personal and family factors to the alcohol usage patterns of a large, culturally and ethnically heterogeneous sample of older adolescents. The medical model postulates that alcoholism is mostly due to biogenetic factors whereas the sociocultural model states that while biological and genetic factors play a role in people's alcohol consumption behavior and patterns, a good deal of the variance in alcoholism is due to psychosocial factors (personal and social variables).

All data in the study were taken from the "High School and Beyond" (HSB) database compiled by the National Opinion Research Center for the United States Department of Educati

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