Facultad de Psicología, University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
Psicothema. 2013;25(3):292-8. doi: 10.7334/psicothema2012.294.
Parents play an important role in determining the risk of children's drug use. The aim of this study was to analyse how certain family-related variables (permissiveness toward drug use, and parental control and affect) were linked to the use of alcohol, tobacco and cannabis, based on young people's self-report of such variables.
The sample was composed of 1,428 school children (51.8% males) aged between 11 and 19 from Mallorca (Spain).
We found that the young people who perceived their parents as permissive and those who perceived less maternal control and higher levels of both paternal and maternal affect were more likely to use alcohol, tobacco and cannabis. Sex differences were found within this pattern. Variables of maternal affect and control were not influential among males, whereas the general pattern was maintained among females.
This study highlights the importance of perceived permissiveness and the need of considering parent's and children's gender when providing control and affect, as fathers will influence male children whereas mothers will influence female children.
父母在决定儿童吸毒风险方面起着重要作用。本研究旨在分析某些与家庭相关的变量（对药物使用的宽容度以及父母的控制和情感）如何与年轻人自我报告的酒精、烟草和大麻使用相关联。
该样本由来自马略卡岛（西班牙）的 1428 名 11 至 19 岁的在校儿童（51.8%为男性）组成。
我们发现，那些认为父母宽容的年轻人，以及那些认为母亲控制较少、父亲和母亲情感水平较高的年轻人，更有可能使用酒精、烟草和大麻。在这种模式中发现了性别差异。母亲情感和控制变量对男性没有影响，而女性则保持了这种普遍模式。
本研究强调了感知到的宽容度的重要性，以及在提供控制和情感时需要考虑父母和孩子的性别，因为父亲会影响男童，而母亲会影响女童。
