title: Resilience to drinking vulnerability in women with alcoholic parents: the moderating effects of dyadic cohesion in marital communication.
abstract: Data from a subsample of women (N = 4,235) in two waves of the National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth (NLSY) are used to examine the relationship between parental alcoholism and alcohol use in adult life. Dyadic cohesion in marital communication (frequency of interaction and agreement on substantive issues that affect couples) is investigated as a resilience factor that could potentially mitigate adverse drinking outcomes in adult children of alcoholics (ACAs). A moderated mediation model is estimated using a Two-Stage Least Squares (2SLS) regression analysis. The results indicated that an imputed transmission of risk for drinking vulnerability in women ACAs, controlling for nonACA status, was effectively moderated by positive dyadic interaction.
authors.affiliation: Department of Sociology, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley 80639, USA. kmjenn@bentley.univnorthco.edu
authors.forename: K M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Jennison
authors.forename: K A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Johnson
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000235:genetics* / Q000523:psychology; D002648:Child; D016241:Child of Impaired Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D003142:Communication; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D008393:Marriage / Q000523:psychology*; D012307:Risk Factors; D012944:Social Support