GENDER AND INTERGENERATIONAL TRANSMISSION OF ALCOHOL USE PATTERNS: AN ANALYSIS OF ADULT CHILDREN IN MOSCOW

Based on a 1996 sample of adult children and their parents in Moscow, this study investigates the degree to which alcohol use patterns are transmitted from parents to adult children and examines the roles of gender, family status, and family interaction dynamics for transmission. Findings suggest th...

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Published inSubstance use & misuse Vol. 37; no. 1; pp. 65 - 87
Main Author Van Gundy, Karen
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Colchester Informa UK Ltd 2002
Taylor & Francis
Subjects
Addictive behaviors
Adolescent
Adult
Adult and adolescent clinical studies
Adult Children
Alcohol
Alcohol Abuse
Alcohol consumption
Alcohol Drinking - psychology
Alcoholism
Biological and medical sciences
Child of Impaired Parents - psychology
Family
Family - psychology
Female
Gender
Gender differences
Humans
Intergenerational transmission
Male
Medical sciences
Middle Aged
Moscow
Moscow, Russia
Outcome Assessment (Health Care)
Parent Child Relations
Parental Influence
Parents
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Russia
Self-Assessment
Sex
Sex Distribution
Social Environment
Eurasia
Russia
Moscow
Human
Consumption
Social environment
Abuse
Alcoholism
Sex
Transmission
Parent child relation
Alcoholic beverage
Progeny
Mother
Intergeneration relation
Predisposition
Family environment
Influence
Adult
Woman
Father
Public health
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Summary:Based on a 1996 sample of adult children and their parents in Moscow, this study investigates the degree to which alcohol use patterns are transmitted from parents to adult children and examines the roles of gender, family status, and family interaction dynamics for transmission. Findings suggest that parents' drinking and family status interaction patterns indeed influence adult children's alcohol consumption. Frequency and volume of alcohol use is higher among children whose mothers typically drink about 3 or more drinks daily or who drink on a weekly basis. Fathers' frequency and volume of alcohol use positively influences only sons' drinking. Mothers' drinking, however, may undermine fathers' positive effect on sons. Fathers' verbal and physical abuse significantly affects daughters' consumption.
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ISSN:1082-6084
1532-2491
DOI:10.1081/JA-120001497