Kisner Mallory A, Gonçalves Stefanie F, Fuchs Allison M, Thompson James C, Chaplin Tara M
George Mason University, USA.
J Early Adolesc. 2025 May;45(5):624-650. doi: 10.1177/02724316241273414. Epub 2024 Aug 9.
Parents' alcohol use may influence adolescent substance use and substance use intentions. Prior research has linked adolescents' emotion reactivity with parental drinking behaviors and adolescent substance use. The present study investigated whether sub-clinical maternal alcohol use relates to adolescent neural emotion reactivity and substance use intentions in early adolescence. Early adolescents ( = 70) viewed emotional images during a fMRI scan and completed a questionnaire about substance use intentions. Their mothers reported past 30-day alcohol use. Results showed that greater frequency of maternal alcohol use predicted adolescents' substance use intentions. In addition, maternal alcohol use predicted adolescent blunted responses to positive emotional images in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) and bilateral anterior cingulate cortex (ACC). There was no relationship between neural emotion reactivity and adolescent substance use intentions. Findings suggest that parental alcohol use may relate to adolescent's development of reward and positive emotion processing systems, even at sub-clinical levels of drinking.
父母饮酒可能会影响青少年的物质使用及物质使用意图。先前的研究已将青少年的情绪反应性与父母的饮酒行为及青少年的物质使用联系起来。本研究调查了临床亚阈值的母亲饮酒情况是否与青少年早期的神经情绪反应性及物质使用意图有关。青少年早期（n = 70）在功能磁共振成像扫描期间观看情绪图片，并完成一份关于物质使用意图的问卷。他们的母亲报告过去30天的饮酒情况。结果显示，母亲饮酒频率越高，预测的青少年物质使用意图越高。此外，母亲饮酒可预测青少年腹内侧前额叶皮层（vmPFC）和双侧前扣带回皮层（ACC）对积极情绪图片的反应迟钝。神经情绪反应性与青少年物质使用意图之间没有关系。研究结果表明，即使在临床亚阈值饮酒水平，父母饮酒也可能与青少年奖励及积极情绪处理系统的发育有关。
