First, do internalizing symptoms and externalizing behavior each mediate the relations between parent psychopathology (alcoholism, antisocial personality disorder, and affective disorder) and growth in
adolescent heavy alcohol use?
Not exact matches
Previous research has shown that
adolescents who drink alone consume more
alcohol and drink more frequently than their social - drinking peers, and that
heavier alcohol use in adolescence is associated with a greater risk of developing
alcohol problems in adulthood.
Heavy parental
alcohol use (assessed at ages 4 and 12 years
using binary
alcohol measures) and
adolescent offspring depressive symptoms — unweighted estimates.
Collapsing across gender,
adolescent - reported externalizing behavior mediated both the relation between parent alcoholism and growth in
heavy alcohol use and the relation between parent antisociality and growth in
heavy alcohol use.
Though individual, family and in particular peer risk indicators all explain some of the variance in substance
use, the differences between
adolescents in SEB / RYC compared with SEL remained significant and substantial, with the exception of
heavy alcohol consumption.