Cier-Dehez Clémence, Raynal Patrick, Séjourné Natalène
Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès, Toulouse, France.
CERPPS (Centre d'Études et de Recherches en Psychopathologie et Psychologie de la Santé), Toulouse, France.
Health Psychol Rep. 2025 Aug 6;13(3):284-297. doi: 10.5114/hpr/207514. eCollection 2025.
Studies have highlighted the negative impact of parental drinking on offspring, but the perception of drinking parents about their parenting role remains poorly explored. This study assessed the parental sense of competence among individuals with alcohol consumption and examined the relationship with parental guilt, burnout, and psychopathological symptoms.
The sample was composed of 759 individuals who had at least one child aged below 18 living at home. Participants answered questionnaires measuring alcohol consumption, parental sense of competence, parental burnout and guilt, and psychopathological symptoms (anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder, PTSD).
An analysis comparing participants having low/no alcohol consumption with those having higher consumption showed that parents of the latter group had lower scores of perceived parental competence, higher scores of parental guilt and burnout, and higher levels of anxiety, depression, and PTSD symptoms. A cluster analysis was performed in the subsample with higher alcohol consumption. This identified a cluster ("High") with participants scoring well above the mean in psychopathology, while another cluster ("Low") included individuals scoring below the mean. The "High" cluster, compared to the "Low" cluster, exhibited lower scores in sense of competence, higher burnout and guilt, and higher alcohol use, with large effect sizes.
In conclusion, parents with higher alcohol consumption perceived themselves as less competent and experienced more significant mental health challenges. However, among those parents, cluster analysis identified one group with higher psychopathology and negative parenting experiences coexisting with another group having lower psychopathology and more positive parenting experiences, suggesting a contrasted typology in parents with higher alcohol consumption.
研究强调了父母饮酒对子女的负面影响，但饮酒父母对其养育角色的认知仍未得到充分探讨。本研究评估了饮酒个体的父母胜任感，并考察了其与父母内疚感、倦怠及心理病理症状之间的关系。
样本由759名至少有一名18岁以下子女在家居住的个体组成。参与者回答了关于饮酒量、父母胜任感、父母倦怠与内疚感以及心理病理症状（焦虑、抑郁和创伤后应激障碍，PTSD）的问卷。
一项将低饮酒量/无饮酒量的参与者与高饮酒量的参与者进行比较的分析表明，后一组父母的父母胜任感得分较低，父母内疚感和倦怠得分较高，焦虑、抑郁和PTSD症状水平也较高。对高饮酒量的子样本进行了聚类分析。这确定了一个聚类（“高”），其参与者的心理病理学得分远高于平均水平，而另一个聚类（“低”）包括得分低于平均水平的个体。与“低”聚类相比，“高”聚类在胜任感方面得分较低，倦怠和内疚感较高，饮酒量也较高，效应量较大。
总之，饮酒量较高的父母认为自己能力较差，且面临更显著的心理健康挑战。然而，在这些父母中，聚类分析确定了一组心理病理学程度较高且养育经历消极的人群，与另一组心理病理学程度较低且养育经历更积极的人群并存，这表明饮酒量较高的父母存在不同类型。
