Grekin Emily R, Brennan Patricia A, Hammen Constance
Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri-Columbia, 200 South 7th Street, Columbia, Missouri 65211-0001, USA.
J Stud Alcohol. 2005 Jan;66(1):14-22. doi: 10.15288/jsa.2005.66.14.
This study examines the relationship between parental alcohol use disorders (AUDs) and child violent and nonviolent delinquency. It also explores the mediating effects of executive functioning and chronic family stress on the parental AUD/child delinquency relationship.
Participants were 816 families with children (414 boys and 402 girls) born between 1981 and 1984 at Mater Misericordiae Mother's Hospital in Brisbane, Australia. Parents and children completed semistructured interviews, questionnaires and neuropsychological tests that assessed parental alcohol use, family psychiatric history, chronic family stress, child delinquency and child executive functioning.
Paternal (but not maternal) AUDs predicted child violent and nonviolent delinquency. Executive functioning mediated the relationship between paternal AUDs and violent delinquency, whereas family stress mediated the relationship between paternal AUDs and both violent and nonviolent delinquency.
Results support a biosocial conceptualization of the paternal AUD/delinquency relationship. They suggest that paternal AUDs may be associated with child executive functioning and family stress, which may in turn lead to child delinquency.
本研究探讨父母酒精使用障碍（AUDs）与儿童暴力及非暴力犯罪之间的关系。同时，本研究还探究了执行功能和慢性家庭压力在父母酒精使用障碍/儿童犯罪关系中的中介作用。
研究对象为816个有孩子的家庭（414名男孩和402名女孩），这些孩子于1981年至1984年出生在澳大利亚布里斯班的仁慈圣母医院。父母和孩子完成了半结构化访谈、问卷调查以及神经心理学测试，这些测试评估了父母的酒精使用情况、家庭精神病史、慢性家庭压力、儿童犯罪情况以及儿童的执行功能。
父亲（而非母亲）的酒精使用障碍可预测儿童的暴力及非暴力犯罪。执行功能在父亲酒精使用障碍与暴力犯罪的关系中起中介作用，而家庭压力在父亲酒精使用障碍与暴力及非暴力犯罪的关系中均起中介作用。
研究结果支持了对父亲酒精使用障碍/犯罪关系的生物社会概念化。研究结果表明，父亲的酒精使用障碍可能与儿童的执行功能和家庭压力有关，而这反过来可能导致儿童犯罪。
