1. Objectifs

Intentions :
«Our study aimed to evaluate the prospective association of childhood CPs [conduct problems] and initiation of smoking, alcohol use, and gambling among pre-adolescent boys and girls, while controlling for the effects of other potential predictors.» (p. 50)

2. Méthode

Échantillon/Matériau :
«In total, the sample included 176 boys with CPs, 116 girls with CPs, 98 matched control boys, and 100 matched control girls (n = 490).» (p. 52)

Instruments :
Questionnaire

Type de traitement des données :
Analyse statistique

3. Résumé

«Research has previously demonstrated the heightened risk for alcohol abuse and alcohol-related problems among adolescent children of alcoholics. However, the results of our study suggest a negative relation between parental substance abuse problems and child early initiation into alcohol. Specifically, children with biological parents who suffer from substance abuse problems were almost one-half as likely to have been initiated into alcohol as their peers whose parents did not have substance use problems. While this finding may initially seem inconsistent with the literature, most previous research has focused on alcohol consumption and alcohol problems among adolescents, and not early initiation among elementary schoolaged children. It is important to note that the variable was also recoded and tested to reflect only those children who currently lived with the parent with the substance abuse problem. Regardless of whether the child lived with the parent with the substance abuse problem or not, the negative relation between parental SUD and child early initiation remained the same. This suggests that the negative relation is not due to the absence of the parent with the substance abuse problem, leaving the child with the other, unaffected parent.» (p. 56)