Document Type
Article
Publication Date
3-17-2017
Abstract
The present study examines the role of communication in shaping norms and behaviors with significant personal and societal consequences. Based on primary socialization theory and the general theory of family communication, parental anti-substance-use socialization processes were hypothesized to influence early adolescents’ substance use norms and behaviors. Using longitudinal data (N =1,059), the results revealed that parent-adolescent prevention communication about substance use in the media and parental anti-substance-use injunctive norms were positively associated with early adolescents’ personal anti-substance-use norms, which, in turn, led to decreases in recent alcohol, cigarette, and marijuana use. It was also found that family expressiveness and structural traditionalism positively related to the hypothesized association between parental socialization processes and early adolescents’ norms and behaviors.
Recommended Citation
Shin, Y. J., & Miller-Day, M. (2017). A longitudinal study of parental anti-substance-use socialization for early adolescents’ substance-use behaviors. Communication Monographs, 84(3), 1-21. DOI: 10.1080/03637751.2017.1300821
Copyright
Taylor & Francis
Included in
Interpersonal and Small Group Communication Commons, Other Communication Commons, Substance Abuse and Addiction Commons
Comments
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published in Communication Monographs, volume 84, issue 3, in 2017, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/03637751.2017.1300821. It may differ slightly from the final version of record.