title: Parental problem drinking predicts implicit alcohol expectancy in adolescents and young adults.
abstract: The present study aimed to investigate the influence of parental problem drinking on implicit and explicit alcohol expectancy of adolescents and young adults (12-24 years). The study was conducted via the Internet, employing a between-subjects design. We measured alcohol expectancy by means of an Implicit Association Test (IAT) and a self-report questionnaire. A short version of the Children of Alcoholics Screening Test (CAST) was used to measure alcohol-related parental problem behavior. Our results showed that increased CAST-scores were correlated with a stronger implicit association between the concepts alcohol and arousal. In contrast, no such relationship was observed between parental problem drinking and self-reported expectancy of alcohol arousal. These findings provide tentative evidence that an implicit cognitive processing bias is implicated in the intergenerational transmission of addictive behaviors.
authors.affiliation: Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany. stefan.belles@tu-dortmund.de
authors.forename: Stefan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Belles
authors.forename: Axel
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Budde
authors.forename: Diana
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Moesgen
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Klein
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000523:psychology*; D019973:Alcohol-Related Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D008297:Male; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010290:Parents; D012931:Social Environment; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult