Alcoholism, Associated Risk Factors, and Harsh Parenting Among Fathers: Examining the Role of Marital Aggression

Overview

Journal Addict Behav

Specialties Psychiatry
Social Sciences

Date 2010 Feb 16

PMID 20153586

Citations 7

Authors

Brent Finger

Lorig K Kachadourian

Danielle S Molnar

Rina D Eiden

Ellen P Edwards

Kenneth E Leonard

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Abstract

This study utilized a longitudinal design to examine relations between paternal alcoholism, paternal psychopathology, marital aggression and fathers' harsh parenting behavior in a sample of children with alcoholic (n = 89) and non-alcoholic (n = 94) fathers. Structural Equation Modeling revealed that paternal alcoholism, depression, and antisocial behavior at 12 months of child age each predicted higher levels of marital aggression at 36 months. Moreover, after controlling for prior parenting, marital aggression was predictive of harsher parenting at kindergarten. Alcoholism and psychopathology were not directly predictive of harsh parenting with marital aggression included in the model, thus indicating that marital aggression is mediating the relation between paternal risk factors and parenting outcome. Results of this study suggest that one pathway linking fathers' alcohol diagnosis to harsh parenting is via marital aggression.

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