Parenting Styles and Adolescent Drug Use Behaviours

Abstract

This study hypothesizes that parental style is related to drug use behaviour of adolescents. The data were obtained from a large prospective longitudinal research project on lifestyle and drug use in Oslo, Norway. The analyses are based on a sample of 846 adolescents, with an age span of 15-20 years. The parenting style was measured by means of a shortened version of Parenting Bonding Instrument, where the respondents assessed their perceptions of their parents' behaviour at the time they were growing up. The instrument measures two subdimensions labelled care and protection, which combine to four broad styles of parenting. Using canonical correlation analyses, it was found that the combination of a low level of caring and a high level of protection, conceptualized as `affectionless control', was associated with drug use among the adolescents. Similar patterns emerged from separate analyses of the father and the mother scales. These support the hypothesis that the parenting styles of the mother and father are related to their children's drug use.

The effects of perceived parenting style on the propensity for illicit drug use: the importance of parental warmth and control

“…However, prospective longitudinal studies [45] have shown that perceptions of parenting style are apparent in early adolescence and remain stable over a number of years: children who rated their parents as less warm and less controlling were more likely to be using drugs at subsequent follow up sessions.…”

Relationships between parenting styles and risk behaviors in adolescent health: an integrative literature review

“…In one research (26) However, another study (25) found that adolescents were more likely to rate their mothers as authoritative and less likely to rate them as uninvolved. Other researchers have reported significant gender differences in the strength of relationships between parenting styles and adolescent substance use, and findings suggest that the parenting style of the parent of the same sex has the strongest relationship with self-regulation and substance use (23,31) .…”

“…Some have added a fourth category of neglectful parenting style (low control and low acceptance) (24) . Others have used different operational definitions and measures, although most measures focus on dimensions of control and acceptance (1,16,(25)(26)(27) .…”

“…Findings from several studies also indicated that adolescents whose parents had neglectful/ unengaged or authoritarian parenting styles had an increased risk for drinking, smoking, and/or using drugs (8,16,(23)(24)(25)(26)31,33) . Parental permissiveness or indulgence was also associated with increased adolescent alcohol and tobacco use (22,23,27) .…”

Studio preliminare sullo stile parentale percepito in un campione di giovani tossicodipendenti di sesso maschile

“…In una ricerca su un campione di 846 adolescenti di età compresa tra i 15-20 anni, S.E. Clausen (1996) ha utilizzato una versione "breve" del PBI, riscontrando una correlazione tra consumo di sostanze e percezione genitoriale che è risultata di tipo "controllo senza affetto", con "basso livello di accudimento" e "alto livello di protezione". Allo stesso modo, R.D.…”