Externalizing symptoms among children of alcoholic parents: Entry points for an antisocial pathway to alcoholism
Externalizing symptoms among children of alcoholic parents: Entry points for an antisocial pathway to alcoholism
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DOI：
10.1037/0021-843x.116.3.529
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发表时间：
2007-08-01
影响因子：
4.6
通讯作者：
Zucker, R. A.
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作者：
Hussong, A. M.;Wirth, R. J.;Zucker, R. A.
作者研究了酗酒父母的儿童外化症状风险的异质性，因为它可能为寻找酗酒的反社会途径的切入点提供信息。也就是说，他们测试了一个家庭中酗酒父母的数量，父母酗酒的共病亚型，以及孩子的性别是否预测了早期生命过程中外部化症状的轨迹，正如在酗酒父母和匹配对照的高风险儿童样本中所评估的那样。通过对两项独立的纵向研究的综合分析，他们发现，父母中有一方是反社会的酗酒者或两方是酗酒者的儿童出现外化症状的风险最大。此外，父母酗酒抑郁的孩子与父母酗酒反社会的孩子在报告的症状上没有区别。这些发现在母亲、父亲和青少年的症状报告中基本一致;儿童性别和儿童年龄（2至17岁）;以及检查的2项独立研究。因此，多酒精和共病酒精的家庭可能会传递一个遗传易感性失调沿着的环境，既加剧了这种易感性，并提供了一些支持，以抵消它。
The authors examined heterogeneity in risk for externalizing symptoms in children of alcoholic parents, as it may inform the search for entry points into an antisocial pathway to alcoholism. That is, they tested whether the number of alcoholic parents in a family, the comorbid subtype of parental alcoholism, and the gender of the child predicted trajectories of extemalizing symptoms over the early life course, as assessed in high-risk samples of children of alcoholic parents and matched controls. Through integrative analyses of 2 independent, longitudinal studies, they showed that children with either an antisocial alcoholic parent or 2 alcoholic parents were at greatest risk for externalizing symptoms. Moreover, children with a depressed alcoholic parent did not differ from those with an antisocial alcoholic parent in reported symptoms. These findings were generally consistent across mother, father, and adolescent reports of symptoms; child gender and child age (ages 2 through 17); and the 2 independent studies examined. Multialcoholic and comorbid-alcoholic families may thus convey a genetic susceptibility to dysregulation along with environments that both exacerbate this susceptibility and provide few supports to offset it.