Hussong Andrea M, Chassin Laurie
Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 27599-3270, USA.
Dev Psychopathol. 2002 Winter;14(1):139-57. doi: 10.1017/s0954579402001086.
Although they have received little empirical attention, departures from the parental home play a significant role in demarcating the transition from adolescence to young adulthood. The current study examined the extent to which various features of young adults' experiences of leaving home differed for children of alcoholic (COAs) versus nonalcoholic parents, what adolescent precursors might account for noted differences and what indicators of young adult adjustment are related to the leaving home experience. A total of 227 young adults drawn from a high-risk, community sample of COAs and matched controls were interviewed at ages 18-23 years regarding their prior leaving home experiences. COAs showed greater difficulties in negotiating this transition, fewer positive feelings about the transition, and different reasons for leaving home as compared to participants without an alcoholic parent. Moreover, adolescent risk behaviors, family conflict, and family disorganization (assessed prior to this transition) each partly accounted for COAs' risk for difficulty in the leaving home transition. Although certain aspects of the leaving home transition were uniquely related to young adult adjustment, future research is still needed to more comprehensively understand the implications for young adult development associated with such individual differences in the leaving home transition.
尽管离开父母家这一情况很少受到实证研究的关注，但它在界定从青春期到青年期的过渡中起着重要作用。当前的研究考察了有酗酒父母的子女（COAs）与没有酗酒父母的子女在离开家的经历的各种特征上存在差异的程度，哪些青少年前期因素可能解释这些显著差异，以及青年期适应的哪些指标与离开家的经历相关。从一个高风险的社区样本中选取了227名有酗酒父母的子女及其匹配的对照组青年，在他们18至23岁时就其之前离开家的经历进行了访谈。与没有酗酒父母的参与者相比，有酗酒父母的子女在应对这一过渡时表现出更大的困难，对过渡的积极感受更少，离开家的原因也不同。此外，青少年的危险行为、家庭冲突和家庭混乱（在这一过渡之前进行评估）各自部分地解释了有酗酒父母的子女在离开家过渡中遇到困难的风险。尽管离开家过渡的某些方面与青年期适应存在独特的关联，但仍需要未来的研究更全面地理解离开家过渡中的这种个体差异对青年期发展的影响。
