Childhood Physical Punishment and Later Alcohol Drinking Consequences: Evidence From a Chinese Context

Cheng, Hui G.; Huang, Yueqin; Anthony, James C.

doi:10.15288/jsad.2011.72.24

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“…The CPP-AUD hypothesis is especially compelling in the context of prevention research for metropolitan China, where alcoholic beverages are widely available throughout the cities, when disposable income levels are increasing, and since parenting practices are potentially modifiable environmental processes (e.g., via parent education and collective child guidance activities). Moreover, in prior research, we and others have found statistically robust CPP-associated excess occurrence of adverse drinking outcomes, even with parental history of drinking problems held constant (5–7). Nevertheless, harsh physical punishment sometimes can be just one facet of childhood adversities, possibly due to a more generally noxious family environment.…”

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“…In this study, we have provided further evidence of a possible causal relationship between CPP and AUD in the Chinese context (5). Mixed evidence was found from previous studies in the US for the CPP-AUD relationship, with other childhood adversities taken into account (7, 8, 14–17).…”

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“…In a previous work, our research team described a hypothesized association that links harsh childhood physical punishment (CPP) with later drinking outcomes such as AUD, as well as supportive theory and findings from pre-clinical experiments (5). The CPP-AUD hypothesis is especially compelling in the context of prevention research for metropolitan China, where alcoholic beverages are widely available throughout the cities, when disposable income levels are increasing, and since parenting practices are potentially modifiable environmental processes (e.g., via parent education and collective child guidance activities).…”

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Aims-The aim of the current study is to estimate the association between childhood physical punishment (CPP) and level of alcohol use disorder (AUD), using two different approaches to take other childhood adversities into account.Design and Setting-Population survey using face-to-face interviews to a representative sample of non-institutionalized adult residents of Beijing and Shanghai, China.Participants-A total of 5201 participants aged 18 to 70 years old. Measurements-A version of the World Mental Health Composite International DiagnosticInterview was used. Standardized assessments covered early life experiences of childhood physical punishment, other childhood adversities, parental drinking problems, childhood conduct problems, and clinical features of AUD.Findings-A robust association linking CPP and level of AUD was found, holding other childhood adversities constant (probit coefficient=0.70, 95% CI=1.40, 1.00) via covariate terms in Structural Equations Modeling. Furthermore, there was evidence that CPP might exert an additional influence on level of AUD over and above a generally noxious family environment (probit coefficient=0.20, 95% CI=0.02, 0.38).Conclusion-There appears to be a robust association between reports of harsh punishment in childhood and alcohol dependence in adulthood adjusting for a range of possible confounding factors. Whether the association is causal or whether both are related to a common underlying factor or recall bias needs to be investigated further.

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“…Although little to no research has been done on the relation between Chinese parents' history of emotional abuse, emotion regulation, and parenting stress in a single examination, existing evidence has supported the association between childhood maltreatment and negative outcomes in Chinese culture (e.g., Cheng, Huang, & Anthony, 2011;Wan, Chen, Sun, & Tao, 2015), which is consistent with findings in Western cultures (e.g., Bailey et al, 2012). Additionally, the Chinese parents who participated in the current study (i.e., middle-class, college educated, and working professionals) are considered to take a more individualistic approach to parenting and co-parenting than previous research suggested, probably due to the drastic social Downloaded by [University of Nebraska, Lincoln] at 06:28 10 June 2016 changes which have occurred in China during the past 30 years and which have moved the culture in the direction of individuality (Chang, Chen, & Ji, 2011).…”

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Emotion Dysregulation Mediates Relations Between Chinese Parents’ Histories of Childhood Emotional Abuse and Parenting Stress: A Dyadic Data Analysis

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Han

2016

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SYNOPSISObjective. This study focused on the intrapersonal and interpersonal effects of parents' histories of childhood emotional abuse and emotion dysregulation on parenting stress in a sample of school-age children's fathers and mothers in Mainland China. Design. One hundred ninety-four Chinese couples participated. Structural equation modeling within the framework of the actor-partner interdependence mediation model was used to assess whether emotion dysregulation mediates relations between parents' childhood emotional abuse and parenting stress of both individuals and their spouses. Results. The childhood emotional abuse of one parent was significantly associated with the parenting stress of both parents through the emotion dysregulation of the parent who was emotionally abused. Conclusions. Links between emotional abuse and parenting stress in the family system are complex, and both parents' childhood histories of emotional abuse play roles in parenting.

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“…In the first report, a generalized linear model with logit link was used to study a multivariate profile of drinking responses observed in adulthood. The odds of alcohol dependence and associated clinical features in adulthood was found to depend on CPP history, even with family drinking problems taken into account (Cheng et al, 2010c). In the second report, a structural equations modeling (SEM) approach was used to evaluate the degree to which the level of alcohol dependence in adulthood might depend upon the CPP history versus an alternative model in which the most prominent predictive or causal variable of interest is a generally noxious family environment with CPP and other childhood adversities bundled into the noxious environment construct.…”

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Childhood physical punishment and the onset of drinking problems: Evidence from metropolitan China

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Huang³

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Drug and Alcohol Dependence

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Background-Evidence in support of a suspected causal association linking childhood physical punishment (CPP) and later alcoholic beverage-related disturbances has been found in metropolitan China. Here, the focus shifts to the CPP association with the estimated risk of starting to drink, having the first drinking problem, and transitioning from first drink to the first drinking problem.Methods-Data are from the World Mental Health Surveys-metropolitan China study, with representative samples of adult household residents living in two metropolitan cities, Beijing and Shanghai. Recalled information was available for early life experiences (including CPP, other childhood adversities, and parental alcohol and drug problems), as well as the onset age of drinking and drinking problems. Survival analyses were used to estimate the hazard ratio. A structural equation modeling approach was used to control for other inter-correlated childhood adversities.Results-Cox proportional hazards modeling discloses statistically robust associations linking CPP with drinking and drinking problems, as well as more rapid transitions from first drink to first drinking problem, even after accounting for other childhood adversities and parental drinking problems. These associations cannot be attributed to a more general noxious family environment.Conclusions-These results lay a foundation for future experimental studies on the possible causal relationship linking CPP with the onset of drinking problems and the transition from drinking to drinking problems.

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Childhood Physical Punishment and Later Alcohol Drinking Consequences: Evidence From a Chinese Context

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Harsh physical punishment as a specific childhood adversity linked to adult drinking consequences: evidence from China

Harsh physical punishment as a specific childhood adversity linked to adult drinking consequences: evidence from China

Emotion Dysregulation Mediates Relations Between Chinese Parents’ Histories of Childhood Emotional Abuse and Parenting Stress: A Dyadic Data Analysis

Childhood physical punishment and the onset of drinking problems: Evidence from metropolitan China

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