Toddler adjustment: impact of parents' drug use, personality, and parent-child relations.
The intercorrelations among parents' drug use, personality, and parent-child relations and the child's anxious/regressive and reflective behaviors were investigated in a sample of 2-year-olds (N = 115). The results indicate that maternal child-rearing practices mediate the effect of maternal personality attributes on the child's intrapsychic functioning. The father's drug use had a direct influence on the child's reflective behavior. Generally, the mother's drug use, personality, and child-rearing practices were more important than the father's attributes. However, the father's drug use had a strong impact on the child when it interacted with the mother's drug use. Parental differences and implications for prevention are discussed.
Brook
J S
JS
Department of Community Medicine, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029, USA.
Tseng
L J
LJ
Cohen
P
P
D000437:Alcoholism / Q000523:psychology; D016241:Child of Impaired Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005219:Father-Child Relations; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D013287:Illicit Drugs; D007223:Infant; D007389:Internal-External Control; D008297:Male; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D016487:Parenting / Q000523:psychology; D010552:Personality Assessment; D010553:Personality Development; D012907:Smoking / Q000523:psychology; D012917:Social Adjustment; D012951:Socialization; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000523:psychology*
D013287:Illicit Drugs