Faculty Articles
Do Adolescent Symptomatology and Family Environment Vary Over Time with Fluctuations in Paternal Alcohol Impairment?
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
3-2001
Publication Title
Developmental Psychology
Volume
37
Issue/Number
2
First Page
207
ISSN
1446-5442
Last Page
216
Abstract/Excerpt
This study tested whether adolescent internalizing problems, externalizing problems, heavy alcohol use, fathers' parenting, and family conflict varied over time with fluctuations in fathers' alcohol impairment and also whether children of recovered alcoholic fathers differed from children of nonalcoholic fathers. Fathers and adolescent children (N = 267 families) were interviewed in 3 annual assessments. Results showed that adolescent symptomatology and the family environment did not vary over time as a function of different trajectories of paternal alcohol impairment. However, children of recovered alcoholic fathers exhibited more symptomatology than did children of nonalcoholic fathers. Even though paternal alcoholism has remitted in these families, children of recovered alcoholic fathers might remain on a general higher risk trajectory relative to children of nonalcoholic fathers.
DOI
10.1037//0012-1649.37.2.207
NSUWorks Citation
DeLucia, C.,
Belz, A.,
Chassin, L.
(2001). Do Adolescent Symptomatology and Family Environment Vary Over Time with Fluctuations in Paternal Alcohol Impairment?. Developmental Psychology, 37(2), 207-216.
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