Prepubertal sons of substance abusers: Influences of parental and familial substance abuse on behavioral disposition, IQ, and school achievement

In order to better understand the transgeneration liability for a substance abuse disorder, we investigated the impact of parental and familial substance abuse disorders on prepubertal boys. Specifically, the influence of each parent's substance abuse history and the effects of significant fami...

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Published in:Addictive behaviors 1995-05, Vol.20 (3), p.345-358
Main Authors: Moss, Howard B., Vanyukov, Michael, Majumder, Partha P., Kirisci, Levent, Tarter, Ralph E.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Achievement
Alcoholism
Biological and medical sciences
Boys
Child
Child Behavior Disorders - psychology
Drug abuse
Family
Family environment. Family history
Fathers
Humans
Intelligence
Male
Medical sciences
Parents
Parents & parenting
Psychiatric Status Rating Scales
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Social psychiatry. Ethnopsychiatry
Socioeconomic Factors
Substance-Related Disorders - diagnosis
Substance-Related Disorders - psychology
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Summary:In order to better understand the transgeneration liability for a substance abuse disorder, we investigated the impact of parental and familial substance abuse disorders on prepubertal boys. Specifically, the influence of each parent's substance abuse history and the effects of significant family aggregation of substance abuse disorders were tested as predictors of the child's behavioral disposition, IQ, and school achievement scores, while controlling for socioeconomic status (SES). Sons of substance abusing fathers were found to have higher externalizing and internalizing problem-behavior scores, lower IQ scores, and lower school achievement scores. Internalizing and externalizing problem-behavior scores were most strongly associated with bilineal parental substance abuse, whereas SES and paternal substance abuse were most strongly associated with IQ and school performance scores. The results are compatible with the hypothesis that although paternal substance abuse has an adverse impact on the son's functioning, bilineal parental substance abuse is associated with the greatest behavioral deviancy among prepubertal males and is associated with a greater liability for substance abuse.
ISSN:0306-4603
1873-6327
DOI:10.1016/0306-4603(94)00077-C