Parental Mediators of Associations between Perceived Authoritative Parenting and Early Adolescent Substance Use

Dados Bibliográficos

ID11670870
AutoresA C Fletcher (0000-0003-1202-8214, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, autor correspondente), Brandi C Jefferies (University of North Carolina at Greensboro)
Ano1999
Volume19
Fascículo4
Páginas465-487
Data de publicação1999-11-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe Journal of Early Adolescence (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0272-4316 • E-ISSN: 1552-5449
EditoraSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0272431699019004003
OpenAlexW2140114818
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas11
Referências citadas27

Assessed in this study was whether a variety of specific parental behaviors mediated associations between perceived authoritative parenting and early adolescent substance use. Eighth-grade students (N = 182) completed questionnaires about their perceptions of parental warmth, behavioral control, and psychological autonomy granting, which were used to compute a measure of perceived parental authoritativeness. Adolescents indicated their perceptions of parents’acceptance of, and likely responses to, substance use. During telephone interviews, one parent of each of 113 adolescents indicated the extent to which he or she used specific strategies aimed at preventing offspring from engaging in substance use. Perceived authoritative parenting was associated with lower levels of substance use among boys and among girls. Perceived parental disciplinary consequences of engaging in substance use mediated associations between perceived authoritative parenting and girls’substance use. Associations between perceived parental authoritativeness and boys’ substance use were not linked by any specific parental behaviors

Autonomy · Developmental psychology · Offspring · Parenting styles · Perception · Psychiatry · Substance abuse · Substance use · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development · Clinical Psychology · Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum · Psychology