Alcohol use in adolescence. By learning and studying what leads young people to drink alcohol, and how this will affect their lives, we can then determine what action need to be taken to help remove ourselves from our ever-increasing attraction to alcoho

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Alcohol use in Adolescence                

Alcohol use in Adolescence

Reuben Rolle

Mrs. Carey

PSY 101: Introduction To Psychology

27th October 2011


Table of Content

                                                                                Page

Introduction                                                                                3

Why Young people Use Alcohol?                                                        3

Can Alcoholism be genetic?                                                                4

Review of Literature                                                                        5

Theory and Hypothesis                                                                6

Methodology                                                                                7

Measures                                                                                7

Results                                                                                        8

Conclusions                                                                                9

Discussions                                                                                10

References                                                                                11


                                                                     Introduction
         Alcohol abuse is a growing problem in our society. Daily people are injured and killed in alcohol-related accidents and this has an effect on each and every person as a result of these occurrences. Whether we are personally involved or have directly suffered from the activities of someone who is under the influence of alcohol, we all suffer from the negative consequences of alcohol. Many young persons in high school and college engage in such activity as this. Since we have those persons who choose to abuse these privileges we need to develop consequences for them. By learning and studying what leads young people to drink alcohol, and how this will affect their lives, we can then determine what action need to be taken to help remove ourselves from our ever-increasing attraction to alcohol.

                                             Why young people use alcohol?

During a research Michael and Rebecca C. Windle discovered several reasons that provide incentives for adolescents to consume alcohol. Using a written survey, it was determined that high school students begin to use alcohol to cope with problems in their lives, including task-oriented, emotion-oriented, and avoidance coping.  The difference between sexes is that girls are more likely to use alcohol to avoid problems they may be facing and as an emotion-oriented coping. Boys on the other hand use alcohol socially and are more likely to have alcohol-related problems. An interesting fact revealed in this study states that adolescents drink more frequently as a result of positive daily events than negative. This means that although young people may drink when they are unhappy, they are more likely to drink in celebration of something good that has happened to them. For example, Every year after High school and College graduations scores of students go out after graduation ceremonies to party and as they say “Get Buss up!”

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                                                    Can Alcoholism be genetic?

By comparing males with a family history of alcoholism to males with a history without alcoholism, we can determine the relationship between genetics, alcoholism, and alcoholic children. While frequency and quantity of alcoholic consumption of children of alcoholics (COA’s) and non-COA’s were similar, COA’s were more than twice as likely to be diagnostically determined alcoholics as were the non-COA. A hypothesis offered by Chassin, Curran, and Hussong on reasons for ...

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