Adolescent and peer alcohol use

A subset of data from Curran, Stice, and Chassin (1997) measuring the relation between changes in alcohol use and changes in peer alcohol use over a 3-year period in a community-based sample of Hispanic and Caucasian adolescents.

Usage

alcohol_use_1

Format

A person-period data frame with 246 rows and 6 columns:

id

Participant ID.

age

in years.

child_of_alcoholic

Binary indicator for whether the adolescent is a child of an alcoholic parent.

male

Binary indicator for whether the adolescent is a male.

alcohol_use

Square root of the summed scores of four eight-point items measuring frequency of alcohol use.

peer_alcohol_use

Square root of the summed scores of two six-point items measuring frequency of peer alcohol use.

Source

Curran, P. J., Stice, E., & Chassin, L. (1997). The relation between adolescent and peer alcohol use: A longitudinal random coefficients model. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 65, 130–140. https://doi.org/10.1037//0022-006x.65.1.130