0 someone who does not do something, especially something they would like to do: --
However, this group of youth experienced lower levels of parental monitoring during adolescence compared to experimenters and abstainers.
Adolescents identified as at risk were more likely to experience less maternal hostility compared to abstainers in early childhood.
Adolescents were categorized into alcohol use groups that ranged from abstainers to problem users.
The absolute majority rule gives the abstainers another option, however: defeat the measure while failing to participate.
Research has not clearly established patterns of adaptation for abstainers, thus necessitating a need for further inquiry.
Findings suggested that adolescent moderate users, compared to abstainers and light users, were more tolerant of deviance and more involved with peers who used drugs.
First, it allows for the detection of selection biases that might follow from excluding abstainers from the three-choice model.
Table 5 shows that the abstainer group had virtually no mental disorder.
