Zebrak Katarzyna A, Green Kerry M
University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA.
J Fam Issues. 2016 Oct;37(13):1869-1890. doi: 10.1177/0192513X14553055. Epub 2014 Oct 7.
Parental psychological distress, parental alcohol involvement, and child/adolescent behavior problems frequently occur together with deleterious effects on individuals and families. Extant evidence suggests that parental and child problems are related; however, less is known about the patterns and directions of their relationships over time, particularly among African Americans. This study examined mutual influences between parental psychological distress and alcohol use, and child/adolescent problem behavior over a 10-year period ( = 459), using data from a prospective cohort study of urban African Americans. Using structural equation modeling, we found statistically significant effects between young adult parents' alcohol use and later adolescent problem behavior, as well as child problem behavior and parental alcohol use 10 years later, even after taking into account potential extraneous influences. Findings also demonstrated continuity in parental and child behaviors over time, and several contemporaneous associations. These findings have potential implications for intervention planning among African American families.
父母心理困扰、父母饮酒问题以及儿童/青少年行为问题经常同时出现，对个人和家庭产生有害影响。现有证据表明，父母问题和儿童问题存在关联；然而，随着时间推移，它们之间关系的模式和方向，尤其是非裔美国人中的情况，我们了解得较少。本研究利用一项针对城市非裔美国人的前瞻性队列研究数据，在10年期间（n = 459）考察了父母心理困扰与饮酒行为之间的相互影响，以及儿童/青少年问题行为之间的相互影响。使用结构方程模型，我们发现，即使考虑了潜在的外部影响，年轻成年父母的饮酒行为与后来青少年的问题行为之间，以及儿童问题行为与10年后父母的饮酒行为之间，都存在统计学上的显著影响。研究结果还表明，随着时间推移，父母和儿童行为具有连续性，并且存在一些同时期的关联。这些发现对非裔美国家庭的干预计划具有潜在意义。
