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. 2018 Aug 24;53(10):1645-1656.
doi: 10.1080/10826084.2017.1421663. Epub 2018 Jan 16.

Bidirectional Relationships between Alcohol-Specific Parental Socialization Behaviors and Adolescent Alcohol Misuse

Melissa J Cox  1 , Susan T Ennett  1 , Vangie Foshee  1 , Andrea Hussong  2 , Melissa Lippold  3 , H Luz McNaughton-Reyes  1
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Bidirectional Relationships between Alcohol-Specific Parental Socialization Behaviors and Adolescent Alcohol Misuse

Melissa J Cox et al. Subst Use Misuse. .

Abstract

Background: Although numerous studies have examined parental influence on adolescent alcohol misuse, few have examined how adolescents impact parental behavior or the reciprocal nature of parent-adolescent behavior relative to alcohol misuse.

Objectives: This study assessed bidirectional relationships between adolescent alcohol misuse and three alcohol-specific parenting behaviors (substance-specific monitoring, permissive communication messages about alcohol, and cautionary communication messages about alcohol).

Methods: Data were from 1,645 parent-adolescent dyads drawn from a longitudinal study spanning grades 6-10. A multivariate latent curve model with structured residuals was used to test study hypotheses.

Results: One marginally significant result emerged (increased alcohol misuse leads to greater substance-specific monitoring) after accounting for underlying developmental processes.

Conclusions: Though practical implications are limited based on the results of the study, further directions for research regarding study design and measurement are provided to more fully examine dynamic processes between parents and adolescents relative to alcohol use.

Keywords: Adolescent alcohol misuse; alcohol-specific parenting; socialization; structural equation modeling; transactional models of development.

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Declaration of interest: The authors report no conflicts of interest. The authors alone are responsible for the content and writing of the paper.

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Fig 1:. General latent curve model with structured residuals
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