Posted on 07/14/2013 1:14:20 PM PDT by workerbee
The personality traits of children in the first five years of their life may help predict alcohol use during teenage years, a new study shows.
The study, detailed July 10 in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, reveals certain temperaments of kids that are correlated with teen drinking.
"People don't enter adolescence as blank slates; they have a history of life experiences that they bring with them, dating back to early childhood," Danielle Dick, a psychologist from at Virginia Commonwealth University and a co-author of the study, said in a statement. "This is one of the most comprehensive attempts to understand very early childhood predictors of adolescent alcohol use in a large epidemiological cohort."
Early personalities
For the study, Dick and her colleagues analyzed the results of a long-term study that tracked thousands of newborns in South West England from birth through 15 1/2 years. The dataset included personality information obtained from mothers in the first five years of the child's life, and from both parents and the subjects themselves thereafter.
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How much did this stupid and impossible conclusions cost us.
Self-ping. I think is going to be a good thread...
His surname starts with Mc or O’.
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It is essential that until children reach physical maturity, that they be kept away from *any* addictive substances. This is because until about age 19-25, the brain is not fully mature and is far more adaptable to its environment.
When children use addictive substances, their brains adjust so that not only is it easier to become addicted, it is much harder for them to break addictions, and this carries on for the rest of their lives. And addictive behavior is not limited to a particular substance.
On the plus side, the older they are when they first consume addictive substances, the less likely they are of having permanent adaptation.
If children can get through their childhood without addictive substances or behaviors, it is much harder for them to become addicts, and much easier to break addictions.
One thing that might help is to eliminate the allure of smoking and/or drinking. Between 6 and 13 my mom occasionally told me that if I ever wanted to drink or smoke, that I should tell her and she would buy the alcohol or cigarettes and we could sit in the back yard while I smoke and drank. To this day I have never smoked and only get drunk twice. I also get irritated when people list the reasons why I should go to an event and one of them is cheap alcohol.
Lest anyone think I’m promoting alcohol to the underage... I assure you, I’m not. Just having fun with a very poorly written headline.
I can say that...I'm Irish
When I was about five my family was sitting watching Ed Sullivan.I was sitting next to my Dad and I asked him if I could puff his cigarette.To my surprise he let me...I took one puff and couldn't stop coughing for about 10 minutes.My Mom was livid."Why did you do that?",she said.But whether my folks realized it or not my Dad had done me a huge favor.My experience caused me to form such a negative opinion of cigarettes that I never smoked.
Both my folks died of smoking related illnesses,but I won't.
I really do buy the idea of ‘additive personality’ (which I am not, generally). Although had tried both smoking and drinking by 16 or so, they didn’t stick. Even now I will buy an 18-pack of beer and it will take me a year or so to get through it. The chemical substance matters a lot, though. I think I would get addicted to oxycodone or another opiate within a week or two, judging by the few pills I’ve been described.
She can already drink from a big glass and she loves spilling and spitting. So she already has several drinking problems. And she isn’t two yet.
When children use addictive substances, their brains adjust so that not only is it easier to become addicted, it is much harder for them to break addictions, and this carries on for the rest of their lives. And addictive behavior is not limited to a particular substance.
On the plus side, the older they are when they first consume addictive substances, the less likely they are of having permanent adaptation.
If children can get through their childhood without addictive substances or behaviors, it is much harder for them to become addicts, and much easier to break addictions.
I absolutely agree that children should be kept away from any and all abuse of alcoholic beverages.
However, there are cultures in which children are introduced to alcoholic beverages at an early age in a completely non-abusive context. And these cultures have low rates of alcoholism and alcohol problems.
Jewish culture, for example. Alcoholic beverages are used in moderation in religious ritual. And in places like Italy, wine is routinely consumed in moderation and without drunkenness at meals.
Personally it looks to me like giving kids a model of non-abuse is a way to insulate them from alcohol problems in later life.
http://alcoholism.about.com/cs/genetics/a/blcah030307.htm
A new study suggests that genes, not religion, may help explain why Jews generally have fewer problems with alcohol than Caucasians in general.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/05/business/global/05italy.html?_r=0
Alcoholism rates in Italy have tripled since 1996 to the current rate of around 60,000, with just over 10 percent under 29 years of age, said Emanuele Scafato, director of the National Observatory on Alcohol at the National Institute of Health.
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