Parenting and children's externalizing problems in substance-abusing families.
This study tested associations in path models among positive and negative parenting and children's rule-breaking behavior, aggressive and oppositional behavior, and attention problems for families with a drug-dependent parent. A structural model tested relations between parenting and children's externalizing problems for 251 families with 399 children between the ages of 6 and 18, controlling for nonindependence of ratings at the family level. The model also tested potential moderators, including child age, gender, and ethnicity (White vs. other), and caregiver gender (families with a female substance-abusing caregiver vs. families with a male substance-abusing caregiver). Results indicated that caregiver ratings of monitoring predicted rule-breaking behavior and use of inconsistent discipline predicted ratings of all 3 externalizing syndromes, after controlling parenting and externalizing problems for the effects of the moderators and after controlling significant relations among types of parenting and types of externalizing problems.
Department of Psychiatry, University of Vermont, USA. Stanger@uvm.edu
Catherine
C
Stanger
Levent
L
Dumenci
Jody
J
Kamon
Marcy
M
Burstein
D000293:Adolescent; D000374:Aggression; D019958:Attention Deficit and Disruptive Behavior Disorders / Q000209:etiology* / Q000523:psychology*; D017028:Caregivers; D002648:Child; D005192:Family Health; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008960:Models, Psychological; D016487:Parenting; D011678:Punishment; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000523:psychology*