Chelsea Lynn Jurman
NEW YORK
Chelsea Lynn Jurman, 17, of Roslyn, studied factors predicting underage
drinking for her Intel Science Talent Search in behavioral and social sciences.
For her study, 123 students were randomly selected to complete a survey about
their drinking behaviors and attitudes toward alcohol, as well as their
perceptions of their parents' drinking and parenting behaviors. Chelsea's
analysis of her survey's results suggests that a teen's perception of his or her
parents' behaviors as an adolescent is positively linked to the teen's own
alcohol use, and that teens are less likely to drink when they are supervised.
She advises parents not to share stories about their own underage drinking with
their children, but to be supportive and maintain strict supervision. Chelsea is
editor-in-chief of the school paper, co-captain of the Mock Trial team and vice
president of Habitat for Humanity at Roslyn High School in Roslyn Heights. She
was invited to present her work in a poster session at the 2009 meeting of the
Society for Personality and Social Psychology. The daughter of Julian and Vicki
Jurman, Chelsea hopes to attend Yale or Princeton, study journalism and English
and become a scientific journalist or lawyer.
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