Pe. Greenbaum et al., ALCOHOL EXPECTANCIES AMONG ADOLESCENTS WITH CONDUCT DISORDER - PREDICTION AND MEDIATION OF DRINKING, Addictive behaviors, 20(3), 1995, pp. 321-333
Among adolescents with conduct disorder, alcohol expectancies were exa
mined for both predictive utility and mediation of other predictors of
alcohol use (i.e., delinquency, family history, demographic and psych
opathology variables). Data were collected from 260 adolescents with c
onduct disorder 11-18 years of age, who had been in either mental heal
th residential facilities or community-based special education program
s for adolescents with serious emotional disturbances. Zero-order corr
elations and structural path models assessed relationships between exp
ectancies, alcohol use, and other predictors of alcohol use. Results i
ndicated: (a) expectancies of enhanced social and cognitive behavior w
ere significant (p<.05) univariate predictors of drinking, (b) among a
ll of the selected predictors, expectancies of enhanced social behavio
r (i.e., Subscale 2 of the Alcohol Expectancy Questionnaire - Adolesce
nt Form; AEQ-A) had the strongest association with alcohol use (r=.54)
and mediated between 31% to 44% of the drinking variance associated w
ith other significant predictors (p<.01). Results were discussed as su
pporting similar expectancy-drinking relationships among CD and noncli
nical youth.