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Product Description This digital document is an article from Journal of Studies on Alcohol, published by Alcohol Research Documentation, Inc. on November 1, 2002. The length of the article is 7533 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. From the author: Objective: Gambling and alcohol misuse are prevalent among youth and may be part of a common problem behavior syndrome. It was hypothesized that alcohol misuse would predict a pattern of increased youth gambling or a pattern of stable high gambling after controlling for key sociodemographic, socialization and individual factors. Method: Data were analyzed from two longitudinal studies of youth living in a western New York metropolitan area. Respondents' gambling at two times over the course of 12-18 months was classified into one of five gambling pattern groups, representing flat-low, increasing, flat-medium, flat-high and decreasing levels of gambling. Results: Alcohol misuse among males predicted increasing gambling over time or a pattern of stability of high rates of gambling even after controlling for socioeconomic status, race, age, impulsivity and parental monitoring in the family study. Higher parental monitoring and lower alcohol misuse were significant in predicting a decreasing pattern of gambling among males in the male delinquency study. For females in the family study, alcohol misuse predicted an increasing pattern of gambling only when other factors such as high impulsivity or low parental monitoring were present. Conclusions: An understanding of adolescent gambling must take into account a variety of demographic, socialization and individual factors, as well as the co-occurrence of alcohol misuse. (J. Stud. Alcohol 63: 767-775, 2002) Citation Details Title: Effects of alcohol misuse on gambling patterns in youth . Author:* Grace M. Barnes Publication: Journal of Studies on Alcohol (Refereed) Date: November 1, 2002 Publisher: Alcohol Research Documentation, Inc. Volume: 63 Issue: 6 Page: 767(9) Distributed by Thomson Gale