Adults’ views of young people's drinking in Italy: An explorative qualitative research

This study aims to investigate the views of adults towards youth drinking, and what they think about alcohol-related parenting styles, as these attitudes are among the factors most affecting adolescents’ alcohol use and misuse. Gaps in adult’s understanding of youth drinking were found, the most important being the overestimation of young people’s appreciation of drunkenness and the underestimation of young people’s pharmaceutical use of alcohol. Parents viewed the family as the main influence on youth drinking and alcohol-related problems, but had doubts about what alcohol-specific parental practices are best.