Parental alcoholism and co-occurring antisocial behavior: Prospective relationships to externalizing behavior problems in their young sons
Parental alcoholism and co-occurring antisocial behavior: Prospective relationships to externalizing behavior problems in their young sons
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DOI:
10.1023/a:1005281011838
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发表时间:
2001-04-01
影响因子:
3.6
通讯作者:
von Eye, A
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作者:
Loukas, A;Fitzgerald, HE;von Eye, A
The hypothesis that parental alcoholism and co-occurring antisocial behavior would be indirectly linked to child externalizing behavior problems through child lack of control, current levels of parent depression, family conflict, and parent-child conflict was tested using manifest variable regression analysis. Participants were a community sample of 125 families with an alcoholic father and 83 ecologically matched but nonsubstance abusing families involved in the first 2 waves of an ongoing longitudinal study (with 3 years between each wave). All families had a biological son who was 3-5 years old at study onset. Results revealed that child lack of control mediated the relation between paternal alcoholism and the son's subsequent externalizing behavior problems. Family conflict was a significant mediator of maternal and paternal lifetime antisocial behavior effects and father-son conflict mediated paternal lifetime antisocial behavior effects. Study implications are discussed within the context of parental socialization of antisocial behavior.