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Predicting 13-year-olds' drinking using parents' self-reported alcohol use and restrictiveness compared with
H Aas1, R Jakobsen, N Anderssen
1National Institute for Alcohol and Drug Research, Oslo, Norway.
Scandinavian Journal of Psychology
|June 1, 1996
Summary
Offspring
Area of Science:
- Psychology
- Sociology
- Public Health
Background:
- Parental alcohol use and restrictiveness are key factors in adolescent alcohol consumption.
- Accurate measurement of parental behaviors is crucial for understanding their influence.
Purpose of the Study:
- To evaluate if offspring's perceptions of parental alcohol use and restrictiveness can substitute for parental self-reports.
- To compare the predictive power of offspring's perceptions versus parental self-reports on offspring's alcohol use.
Main Methods:
- Survey data collected from 924 offspring, 642 fathers, and 729 mothers.
- Correlational and regression analyses were used to compare parental self-reports with offspring's perceptions.
- Examined the variance in offspring's alcohol use explained by each reporting method.
Main Results:
- Offspring's perceptions of parental drinking frequency and restrictiveness explained 8% of the variance in offspring's alcohol use.
- Parental self-reports explained less than 2% of the variance in offspring's alcohol use.
- Correlations between parental and offspring reports of parental drinking ranged from 0.55 to 0.70.
Conclusions:
- Offspring's perceptions are a stronger predictor of their own alcohol use than parental self-reports.
- Relying on offspring's reports of parental alcohol use as a surrogate for parental self-reports may be unreliable in studies of young adolescents.
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