Sex roles and drinking among adolescent girls.

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Data on 13,122 girls and 5436 boys in a national [USA] sample surveyed in 1974 (Research Triangle Institute) were examined. Drinking behavior was measured by a quantity-frequency index, a scale of drinking problems and a scale of behavioral symptoms of problem drinking. Sex-role orientation was measured by a 6-item scale of traditional femininity, and adherence to the traditional norm against women''s drinking by responses to 2 questions. Traditional femininity did not distinguish nondrinkers from drinkers among the adolescent girls. White, Black and Spanish American girls who drank were likely to drink more, more symptomatically and with more problem consequences if they rejected traditional feminity. This association between rejection of traditional feminity and drinking behavior was linked to deviant behavior.

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