Citation

Patock-Peckham JA, Morgan-Lopez AA. Psychol. Addict. Behav. 2006; 20(2): 117-125.

Affiliation

University of Missouri-Rolla, Rolla, MO, US. jpatock@umr.edu.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2006, American Psychological Association)

DOI

10.1037/0893-164X.20.2.117

PMID

16784353

Abstract

Mediational links between parenting styles (authoritative, authoritarian, permissive), impulsiveness (general control), drinking control (specific control), and alcohol use and abuse were tested. A pattern-mixture approach (for modeling non-ignorable missing data) with multiple-group structural equation models with 421 (206 female, 215 male) college students was used. Gender was examined as a potential moderator of parenting styles on control processes related to drinking. Specifically, the parent-child gender match was found to have implications for increased levels of impulsiveness (a significant mediator of parenting effects on drinking control). These findings suggest that a parent with a permissive parenting style who is the same gender as the respondent can directly influence control processes and indirectly influence alcohol use and abuse.

Language: en