National Institute of Public Health, 2000 Maribor, Slovenia.
Department of Pedagogy, Faculty of Arts, University of Maribor, 2000 Maribor, Slovenia.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Jul 1;19(13):8080. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19138080.
Cannabis is the most commonly used illicit drug. Its use typically starts in adolescence, and parents play a key role in young people's cannabis use. Our study aimed to examine and compare the effects of parenting styles, parental cannabis-specific rules, and parental cannabis use on young people's cannabis use. The research sample consisted of 839 students from various secondary education programs in Slovenia, aged 14 to 21. Associations between the young people's lifetime cannabis use and their experience of parenting practices were assessed using logistic regression, with demographic, socioeconomic, educational, health, and risk behaviors controlled in a multivariate model. Maternal authoritative parenting (in comparison with permissive parenting), strict maternal, cannabis-specific rules, and parental cannabis non-use statistically significantly reduced the likelihood of young people's cannabis use. Its strongest predictor was parental cannabis use, followed by the mother's specific cannabis-use rules and maternal parenting style. The findings of our study can contribute to the development of public health policies to more effectively prevent cannabis use among adolescents and emerging adults, including by designing prevention programs aimed at strengthening parents' general and cannabis-specific practices and competences.
大麻是最常用的非法药物。其使用通常始于青少年时期，父母在年轻人的大麻使用中起着关键作用。我们的研究旨在检查和比较父母教养方式、父母针对大麻的具体规定以及父母使用大麻对年轻人使用大麻的影响。研究样本包括来自斯洛文尼亚各种中等教育课程的 839 名 14 至 21 岁的学生。使用逻辑回归评估年轻人终生使用大麻与他们的父母教养实践经验之间的关联，在多变量模型中控制了人口统计学、社会经济、教育、健康和风险行为。与放任型教养方式（与放任型教养方式相比）相比，母亲的权威教养方式、严格的母亲、针对大麻的具体规定以及父母不使用大麻的行为会降低年轻人使用大麻的可能性。其最强的预测因子是父母使用大麻，其次是母亲的具体大麻使用规定和母亲的教养方式。我们研究的结果可以为制定公共卫生政策做出贡献，以更有效地预防青少年和刚成年的人使用大麻，包括设计旨在加强父母的一般和针对大麻的实践和能力的预防计划。
