Citation

Locke TF, Newcomb M. J. Fam. Psychol. 2004; 18(1): 120-134.

Affiliation

Department of Psychology, University of California at Los Angeles, 90095-1563, USA. doclocke@adelphia.net

Copyright

(Copyright © 2004, American Psychological Association)

DOI

10.1037/0893-3200.18.1.120

PMID

14992615

Abstract

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 and practices through self-drug problems. Among fathers, emotional neglect experienced as a child predicted lack of parental warmth more parental neglect, and sexual abuse experienced as a child predicted a rejecting style of parenting.

Language: en