title: Parent psychopathology, parenting, and child internalizing problems in substance-abusing families.
abstract: A structural model accounting for child internalizing problems in substance-abusing families was tested. Parents receiving substance abuse treatment (N = 242) completed forms about children between the ages of 6 and 18 who resided in their home. The effects of parent gender, child gender, and child age were controlled. Negative parenting was examined as a mediator between parent internalizing and externalizing problems and child anxiety and affective problems using path analysis. Negative parenting mediated relations only between parent internalizing problems and child affective problems. High-positive involvement moderated relations between parent externalizing problems and child internalizing problems. Relations between parent externalizing problems and child anxiety and affective problems were significant only among families in which high-positive involvement was present.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry.
authors.forename: Marcy
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Burstein
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry.
authors.forename: Catherine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Stanger
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry.
authors.forename: Jody
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kamon
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry.
authors.forename: Levent
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Dumenci
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001008:Anxiety Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D002648:Child; D016241:Child of Impaired Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D019964:Mood Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D016487:Parenting / Q000523:psychology*; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy