Graduation Year
2022
Document Type
Thesis
Degree
M.S.P.H.
Degree Name
MS in Public Health (M.S.P.H.)
Degree Granting Department
Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Major Professor
Dr. Amy Alman, Ph.D.
Committee Member
Dr. Henian Chen, Ph.D.
Committee Member
Edgar Kopp, MS
Keywords
Adolescents, Alcohol Abuse Symptoms, Alcohol Use, Life Values
Abstract
Investigating life value trends, the pro-social and anti-social characteristics that play a role in decision making, is an understudied field in adolescents. In addressing adolescent alcohol consumption as a public health concern, life values may provide needed background in understanding and influencing adolescent behavior toward pro-social values and away from known risk factors, such as alcohol consumption. By modeling life value trends of adolescents and the associations between each life value and the outcomes of alcohol use and alcohol abuse, there may be primordial level intervention opportunities as opposed to the current, largely ineffective, tertiary level interventions. This thesis utilizes longitudinal data collected from adolescents residing in either of two randomly sampled upstate New York counties and multi-level modeling to model life value trends and analyze the associations between each life value and the outcomes of interest. Overall, the pro-social life values GOD, PATRIOT, and SELFUND, and the anti-social life values SEX_LV and LOVE, are significantly associated with either or both outcomes and trend toward scores which are more highly associated with the risk factors. These life values are potential targets for intervention.
Scholar Commons Citation
Habecker, Connor, "Longitudinal Associations Among Life Values, Alcohol Use, and Alcohol Abuse Symptoms from Adolescence to Adulthood" (2022). USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/etd/10390
