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Published on: December 14, 2014
Alcoholics Anonymous attendance following 12-step treatment participation as a link between alcohol-dependent
Jasmina Burdzovic Andreas1, Timothy J O'Farrell
1Department of Community Health, Center for Health and Clinical Epidemiology, Brown University, 121 South Main St., Providence, RI 02912, USA. jba@brown.edu
Abstract:
We investigated longitudinal associations between alcohol-dependent fathers' 12-step treatment involvement and their children's internalizing and externalizing problems (N = 125, M(age) = 9.8 +/- 3.1), testing the hypotheses that fathers' greater treatment involvement would benefit later child behavior and that this effect would be mediated by fathers' posttreatment behaviors. The initial association was established between fathers' treatment involvement and children's externalizing problems only, whereas Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) results supported mediating hypotheses. Fathers' greater treatment involvement predicted children's lower externalizing problems 12 months later, and fathers' posttreatment behaviors mediated this association: Greater treatment involvement predicted greater posttreatment Alcoholics Anonymous attendance, which in turn predicted greater abstinence. Finally, fathers' abstinence was associated with lower externalizing problems in children. Theoretical and practical implications of these findings are discussed.
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