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. 2010 May;35(5):426-31.
doi: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2009.12.009. Epub 2009 Dec 21.

Parent-child communication and substance use among adolescents: do father and mother communication play a different role for sons and daughters?

Jeremy W Luk  1 , Tilda Farhat, Ronald J Iannotti, Bruce G Simons-Morton
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Parent-child communication and substance use among adolescents: do father and mother communication play a different role for sons and daughters?

Jeremy W Luk et al. Addict Behav. 2010 May.

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate gender-specific variations in the associations between communication with father and mother, cigarette smoking, alcohol drinking and marijuana use in male and female adolescents. Cross-sectional data were collected from a national sample of 1308 tenth graders who participated in the 2005/06 U.S. HBSC. Outcome variables were self-reported substances used in the past 30 days. Logistic regression analyses controlling for race/ethnicity, family structure and socioeconomic status showed that the association of mother and father communication with adolescent substance use varied by substance and gender. Among sons, father communication was protective against marijuana use and mother communication was protective against smoking. Neither father nor mother communication was protective against substance use by daughters. Research is needed to understand gender-specific differences in correlates of adolescent substance use and the implications for prevention and intervention.

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