College drinking behaviors: Mediational links between parenting styles, impulse control, and alcohol-related outcomes.

Abstract

Mediational links between parenting styles (authoritative, authoritarian, permissive), impulsiveness (general control), drinking control (specific control), and alcohol use and abuse were tested. A pattern-mixture approach (for modeling non-ignorable missing data) with multiple-group structural equation models with 421 (206 female, 215 male) college students was used. Gender was examined as a potential moderator of parenting styles on control processes related to drinking. Specifically, the parent-child gender match was found to have implications for increased levels of impulsiveness (a significant mediator of parenting effects on drinking control). These findings suggest that a parent with a permissive parenting style who is the same gender as the respondent can directly influence control processes and indirectly influence alcohol use and abuse.

Impulsivity-related cognition in alcohol dependence: Is it moderated by DRD2/ANKK1 gene status and executive dysfunction?

“…Findings were consistent with those reported by Patock-Peckham and colleagues (Patock-Peckham et al, 2011;Patock-Peckham & Morgan-Lopez, 2006), and Kabbani and Kambouropoulos (2013) in non-dependent, college drinkers. The magnitude of the mediation effect was smaller in this sample of treatment-seeking inpatients, compared to college students (Kabbani & Kambouropoulos, 2013) and is consistent with Gullo et al (2010), where drinking refusal self-efficacy was compared between college drinkers and dependent drinkers.…”

“…Several studies have reported that perceived impaired control mediates the association between rash impulsiveness and problem drinking (Kabbani & Kambouropoulos, 2013;Patock-Peckham, King, Morgan-Lopez, Ulloa, & Filson Moses, 2011;Patock-Peckham & Morgan-Lopez, 2006). The magnitude of the mediation effect ranges from β = .09 (Kabbani & Kambouropoulos, 2013) Past studies investigating mediation have sampled non-dependent, college drinkers.…”

Impaired Control and Undergraduate Problem Drinking

“…Nagoshi showed that after controlling for gender, age, impulsivity, venturesomeness, depression, irrational beliefs, alcohol norms and expectancies and reasons for drinking, Part 3 scores significantly predicted alcohol-related problems but not alcohol consumption. PatockPeckham and colleagues found that Part 3 score was significantly associated with both alcohol use and related problems in a model above and beyond parental rearing style and self-regulation (2001) and in a separate report, above and beyond parental rearing style and impulsiveness (Patock-Peckham and Morgan-Lopez, 2006). Part 2 of the ICS was used instead of Part 3 in the present study.…”

“…Nagoshi has found Part 3 of the ICS to be reliable for use with undergraduates (Nagoshi, 1999). With respect to validity in this population, Nagoshi, Patock-Peckham and colleagues have consistently found Part 3 scores to be significantly correlated with both alcohol use and alcohol-related problems (PatockPeckham et al, 1998;Nagoshi, 1999;Patock-Peckham et al, 2001;Patock-Peckham and Morgan-Lopez, 2006). In these studies, Part 3 scores were found to be predictive of problem drinking in cross-sectional models while controlling for a number of different variables.…”

“…Considering its relatively early emergence and central role in addiction, it is likely that impaired control is both more prevalent among young adults in these high-risk groups and especially problematic for them as well, although prior studies with undergraduates have found no significant gender differences on Part 3 of the ICS (Patock-Peckham et al, 1998;Nagoshi, 1999;Patock-Peckham et al, 2001;Patock-Peckham and Morgan-Lopez, 2006). In summary, in order to further establish the validity of impaired control and the effectiveness of Part 2 of the ICS as a measure of the construct, several established predictor variables were also examined, a number of which (i.e., family history, sensation seeking, severity of best friend's drinking and enhancement motives) have yet to be included in analyses with impaired control in the prediction of undergraduate problem drinking.…”