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¶ … Boljevac (2010) investigated how living in a rural community was related to alcohol use and attitudes towards alcohol in adolescents. Past research had indicated that rural living was not a protective factor against adolescent alcohol use; however, there is a wide discrepancy in the prevalence of rural adolescent alcohol use reported in previous studies. In order to better understand these findings the researchers explored how perceived and actual controls for or against drinking were related to attitudes and alcohol use in rural adolescents. Students in the sixth to eighth grades in 22 rural Northern Plains communities as well as parents and rural community leaders completed questionnaires regarding alcohol usage, perceptions of use by adults and peers, controls against using, and their perceptions of attitudes for and against alcohol usage. Findings indicated that half of the adolescents in the study reported at least once in a lifetime alcohol use and 10% reported drinking alcohol in the past month (with a wide variance across communities on both variables). Perceived community supports against adolescent drinking reduced both lifetime and past month...
Perceived adolescent community supportiveness and adult perceived controls against usage were related to lifetime and past month alcohol usage in adolescents.
The design of the survey indicated a qualitative approach although the results of the study are quantitative. For example, lifetime alcohol usage was assessed with a single question asking if the subject had ever used alcohol. Past month usage was determined by how many days in the past month subjects drank and how many drinks were consumed. However, many of the questions are concerning the perceptions of the subjects and not numerical facts, frequencies, or other quantitative information. Thus, qualitative data needed to be obtained. For instance, it was found that subjects did not make a distinction between some community tolerance towards adolescent drinking in certain circumstances (presciptive) or no community controls against alcohol use…
References
DeHaan, L. & Boljevac, T. (2010). Alcohol Prevalence and Attitudes among Adults and Adolescents: Their Relation to Early Adolescent Alcohol Use in Rural Communities. Journal of Child and Adolescent Substance Abuse, 19 (3), 223-243.
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