Child Maltreatment, Parent Alcohol- and Drug-Related Problems, Polydrug Problems, and Parenting Practices: A Test of Gender Differences and Four Theoretical Perspectives

The authors tested how adverse childhood experiences (child maltreatment and parent alcohol- and drug-related problems) and adult polydrug use (as a mediator) predict poor parenting in a community sample (237 mothers and 81 fathers). These relationships were framed within several theoretical perspec...

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Published in:Journal of family psychology 2004-03, Vol.18 (1), p.120-134
Main Authors: Locke, Thomas F, Newcomb, Michael D
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Alcohol Abuse
Alcohol use
Alcoholism - epidemiology
Alcoholism - psychology
Biological and medical sciences
Child
Child Abuse
Child abuse & neglect
Child Abuse - psychology
Child Abuse - statistics & numerical data
Child Neglect
Child of Impaired Parents
Childhood Adversity
Childrearing Practices
Drug Abuse
Drug use
Early Experience
Family environment. Family history
Female
Follow-Up Studies
Gender differences
Human
Human Sex Differences
Humans
Male
Medical sciences
Parent Child Relations
Parental Characteristics
Parenting
Parents & parenting
Polydrug Abuse
Psychological Theory
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Sex Distribution
Social psychiatry. Ethnopsychiatry
Substance-Related Disorders - epidemiology
Substance-Related Disorders - psychology
Surveys and Questionnaires
Victimology
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Summary:The authors tested how adverse childhood experiences (child maltreatment and parent alcohol- and drug-related problems) and adult polydrug use (as a mediator) predict poor parenting in a community sample (237 mothers and 81 fathers). These relationships were framed within several theoretical perspectives, including observational learning, impaired functioning, self-medication, and parentification-pseudomaturity. Structural models revealed that child maltreatment predicted poor parenting practices among mothers. Parent alcohol- and drug-related problems had an indirect detrimental influence on mothers' parenting practices through self-drug problems. Among fathers, emotional neglect experienced as a child predicted lack of parental warmth and more parental neglect, and sexual abuse experienced as a child predicted a rejecting style of parenting.
ISSN:0893-3200
1939-1293
DOI:10.1037/0893-3200.18.1.120