Despite the potential importance of delineating the development of alcohol use over the adolescent years, detailed investigations of incremental increases in alcohol use in adolescence are rare. Age- and gender-related differences in frequency, quantity, patterns, and consequences of alcohol use were examined among 1,260 male and 1,338 female…

Available evidence does not support the notion that aging is associated with increasingly conservative social and political attitudes, or the idea that attitudinal rigidity is the norm among older cohorts. To examine whether aging is associated with attitudinal rigidity, nine surveys from the National Opinion Research Center were analyzed to…

Although self-esteem (SE) has been studied across the life span and across social groups, few studies have focused on the changes in self-esteem within a social group. To investigate the cohort and gender differences in SE in three-generational families (child, parent, grandparent generations), 6 members of 47 families (282 individuals) completed…