TY - JOUR
T1 - Do adolescent symptomatology and family environment vary over time with fluctuations in paternal alcohol impairment?
AU - DeLucia, C.
AU - Belz, A.
AU - Chassin, Laurie
PY - 2001/3
Y1 - 2001/3
N2 - This study tested whether adolescent internalizing problems, externalizing problems, heavy alcohol use, fathers' parenting, and family conflict varied over time with fluctuations in fathers' alcohol impairment and also whether children of recovered alcoholic fathers differed from children of nonalcoholic fathers. Fathers and adolescent children (N = 267 families) were interviewed in 3 annual assessments. Results showed that adolescent symptomatology and the family environment did not vary over time as a function of different trajectories of paternal alcohol impairment. However, children of recovered alcoholic fathers exhibited more symptomatology than did children of nonalcoholic fathers. Even though paternal alcoholism has remitted in these families, children of recovered alcoholic fathers might remain on a general higher risk trajectory relative to children of nonalcoholic fathers.
AB - This study tested whether adolescent internalizing problems, externalizing problems, heavy alcohol use, fathers' parenting, and family conflict varied over time with fluctuations in fathers' alcohol impairment and also whether children of recovered alcoholic fathers differed from children of nonalcoholic fathers. Fathers and adolescent children (N = 267 families) were interviewed in 3 annual assessments. Results showed that adolescent symptomatology and the family environment did not vary over time as a function of different trajectories of paternal alcohol impairment. However, children of recovered alcoholic fathers exhibited more symptomatology than did children of nonalcoholic fathers. Even though paternal alcoholism has remitted in these families, children of recovered alcoholic fathers might remain on a general higher risk trajectory relative to children of nonalcoholic fathers.
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U2 - 10.1037/0012-1649.37.2.207
DO - 10.1037/0012-1649.37.2.207
M3 - Article
C2 - 11269389
AN - SCOPUS:0035289961
SN - 0012-1649
VL - 37
SP - 207
EP - 216
JO - Developmental psychology
JF - Developmental psychology
IS - 2
ER -