Department of Health Sciences, University of Florence, Florence, Italy.
Centre of Alcoholism and Alcohol-Related Health Problems Unit, Careggi University Hospital, Florence, Italy.
Clin Psychol Psychother. 2021 Sep;28(5):1128-1134. doi: 10.1002/cpp.2562. Epub 2021 Feb 13.
The family climate has notable impact on cognitive, emotional, behavioural, social and physical development of children and adolescents and can be influenced by parents' health status. The present study aimed at evaluating whether living with a parent with alcohol use disorder negatively influences the perceived emotional family climate, parental attitudes and internal representations of family relationships. Forty-five children living with a parent with alcohol use disorder and 45 controls, matched for sex and age, completed the Level of Expressed Emotion Scale and the Family Attitudes Questionnaire. Their significant parent completed the Parental Attitudes Scale. The results suggested that living with a parent with an alcohol use disorder increased the risk of having perceived higher levels of emotional response, attitude towards illness and expectations from their parents; it also increased the probability of being exposed to lower parental pleasure and of having represented worse family relationships. Emotion regulation interventions might be useful to protect children living with a parent with alcohol use disorder from a potential chaotic and unpredictable family environment.
家庭氛围对儿童和青少年的认知、情感、行为、社会和身体发育有显著影响，并且可以受到父母健康状况的影响。本研究旨在评估与患有酒精使用障碍的父母共同生活是否会对感知到的情感家庭氛围、父母态度和家庭关系的内部表征产生负面影响。45 名与患有酒精使用障碍的父母共同生活的儿童和 45 名性别和年龄匹配的对照组完成了情感表达量表和家庭态度问卷。他们的主要照顾者完成了父母态度量表。结果表明，与患有酒精使用障碍的父母共同生活增加了感知到更高水平的情感反应、对疾病的态度和对父母的期望的风险；它还增加了接触到较低的父母愉悦和代表更糟糕的家庭关系的可能性。情绪调节干预可能有助于保护与患有酒精使用障碍的父母共同生活的儿童免受潜在混乱和不可预测的家庭环境的影响。
