The Influence of Maternal Drinking and Drug Use on the Quality of the Home Environment of School‐Aged Children

Jester, Jennifer M.; Jacobson, Sandra W.; Sokol, Robert J.; Tuttle, Brenda S.; Jacobson, Joseph L.

doi:10.1111/j.1530-0277.2000.tb02082.x

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“…To the extent that the gender specific effect estimates reflect a systematic difference between maternal and parental effects, it may well suggest higher vulnerability to maternal than paternal abuse because mothers tend to occupy a more important caregiver role than do fathers. Studies have shown that the family functioning is negatively affected by maternal alcohol abuse, through causing a less cohesive and organized family environment [31], and poor parenting has been shown to mediate the relationship between maternal and paternal alcohol abuse and child internalizing problems [32]. Another conceivable explanation may be that maternal alcohol abuse is a relatively rare condition, which may lead to more social stigma or worse social consequences for the offspring.…”

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Paternal and maternal alcohol abuse and offspring mental distress in the general population: the Nord-Trøndelag health study

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BackgroundThe degree to which parental alcohol abuse is a risk factor for offspring mental distress is unclear, due to conflicting results of previous research. The inconsistencies in previous findings may be related to sample characteristics and lack of control of confounding or moderating factors. One such factor may be the gender of the abusing parent. Also, other factors, such as parental mental health, divorce, adolescent social network, school functioning or self-esteem, may impact the outcome. This study examines the impact of maternal and paternal alcohol abuse on adolescent mental distress, including potentially confounding, mediating or moderating effects of various variables.MethodsData from the Nord-Trøndelag Health Study (HUNT), a Norwegian population based health survey, from 4012 offspring and their parents were analyzed. Parental alcohol abuse was measured by numerical consumption indicators and CAGE, whereas offspring mental distress was measured by SCL-5, an abbreviated instrument tapping symptoms of anxiety and depression. Statistical method was analysis of variance.ResultsMaternal alcohol abuse was related to offspring mental distress, whereas no effect could be shown of paternal alcohol abuse. Effects of maternal alcohol abuse was partly mediated by parental mental distress, offspring social network and school functioning. However, all effects were relatively small.ConclusionsThe results indicate graver consequences for offspring of alcohol abusing mothers compared to offspring of alcohol abusing fathers. However, small effect sizes suggest that adolescent offspring of alcohol abusing parents in general manage quite well.

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“…Continuous measures can also be aggregated in the assessment of socioenvironmental risk; for example, by averaging across related socioenvironmental measures (after they have been converted to standard scores; see Jacobson, Jacobson, Padgett, Brumitt, &Billings, 1992, andJester, Jacobson, Sokol, Tuttle, &. As described in the Mun et al article, Fitzgerald, Sullivan, Ham, Zucker, Bruckel, and Schneider (1993) and Zucker, Ellis, Bingham, and Fitzgerald (1996) support a risk aggregation approach but propose that some risk factors, such as, paternal antisocial alcoholism, are more potent than others and may serve as potent proxy indicators of various environmental and genetic risks that canalize pathways toward maladaptive behavior as early as infancy.…”

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Alcohol and drug‐related effects on development: A new emphasis on contextual factors

Jacobson

2001

Infant Mental Health Journal

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The articles in this special issue bring together two lines of research that reflect different perspectives on the effects of parental alcohol and drug abuse-the long-term impact of teratogenic insult due to prenatal exposure and the developmental risks associated with being reared by a substance-abusing parent. These articles reflect major methodological advances, including the use of moderator variablesparticularly, parental psychopathology and child temperament-for detecting the adverse impact of parental substance abuse on child outcome. In several articles, more comprehensive sets of control variables are considered than in prior studies, and investigators examine the use of aggregate and cumulative risk factors in an attempt to better model underlying conditions of risk. Another advance is that most of these studies recognize the importance of quantifying levels of prenatal alcohol and drug exposure. In focusing our attention simultaneously on prenatal exposure, parental substance abuse and comorbid psychopathology, child temperament, and contextual factors, these studies offer a better understanding of the complex interrelated influences of risk factors on the child's cognitive and socio-emotional development.RESUMEN: Los artículos en este número especial aportan al mismo tiempo dos enfoques de investigación que reflejan diferentes perspectivas sobre los efectos del abuso del alcohol y las drogas por parte de los padres-el impacto a largo plazo de los daños teratogénicos debidos a la exposición prenatal y los riesgos de desarrollo asociados con el ser criado por un padre o madre que abusa de las sustancias antes mencionadas. Estos artículos reflejan avances metodológicos de suma importancia, incluyendo el uso de variables mediadoras-particularmente la sicopatología de los padres y el temperamento del niño-para detectar el impacto adverso que el abuso de sustancias por parte de los padres tiene en la crianza del niño. En varios de los ensayos se considera un grupo más comprensivo de variables de control, que en otros estudios, y los investigadores examinan el uso de factores de riesgo agregados y acumulados como una manera de modelar mejor las subyacentes condiciones de riesgo. Otro avance es que la mayoría de Our alcohol research has been funded by grants R01-AA06966, P50-AA07606, and R01-AA09524 from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism; the PCB research by grant CR80852010 from the United States Environmental Protection Agency and grants R01-ES03246 and R01-ES05843 from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. Our work is also supported by a grant from the Joseph Young, Sr., Fund from the State of Michigan. Direct correspondence to: Sandra W. Jacobson, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, Wayne State University School of Medicine, 2751 E. Jefferson Street, Detroit, MI 48207; phone: (313) 993-5454; fax: (313) 993-3427. Alcohol and Drug-Related Developmental Effects • 417estos estudios reconoce la importancia de cuantificar los niveles de la ex...

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“…Such exposure has been shown to disrupt the infants’ sleep-wake patterns as well as motor development (Little, Lambert, & Worthington-Roberts, 1990). Postnatal excessive alcohol consumption, often accompanied by maternal distraction, neglect, unpredictable behavior, and other mental health issues, contributes to a deficient child rearing environment and poses risks to children during the first few years of life as they spend most of time with their mothers (Jester, Jacobson, Sokol, Tuttle, & Jacobson, 2000). …”

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Maternal Patterns of Postpartum Alcohol Consumption by Age: A Longitudinal Analysis of Adult Urban Mothers

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The purpose of this study is to investigate a) longitudinal patterns of maternal postpartum alcohol use as well as its variation by maternal age at child birth; b) within maternal age groups, the association between other maternal characteristics and alcohol use patterns for the purposes of informed prevention design. Study sample consists of 3,397 mothers from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study representing medium and large U.S. urban areas. Maternal drinking and binge drinking were measured at child age one, three, and five years. We conducted separate longitudinal latent class analysis within each of the three pre-determined maternal age groups (ages 20–25: n=1,717; ages 26–35: n=1,367; ages 36+: n=313). Results revealed different class structures for maternal age groups. While two classes (NB [non-binge]-drinkers and LL [low-level]-drinkers) were identified for mothers in each age group, a third class (binge drinkers) was separately distinguished for the two older age groups. Whereas binge drinking rates appear to remain stable over the five years post-delivery for mothers who gave birth in their early twenties, mothers ages 26 and older increasingly engaged in binge drinking over time, surpassing the binge drinking behavior of younger mothers. Depression significantly increases the odds of being a NB-drinker for the 20–25 age group and that of being a binge drinker for the 36+ age group, whereas smoking during pregnancy is associated with subsequent binge drinking only for mothers ages 20–25. Findings highlight the importance of distinguishing risk factors by maternal age groups for drinking while parenting a young child, to inform the design of intervention strategies tailored to mothers of particular ages.

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The Influence of Maternal Drinking and Drug Use on the Quality of the Home Environment of School‐Aged Children

Cited by 52 publications

References 70 publications

Paternal and maternal alcohol abuse and offspring mental distress in the general population: the Nord-Trøndelag health study

Paternal and maternal alcohol abuse and offspring mental distress in the general population: the Nord-Trøndelag health study

Alcohol and drug‐related effects on development: A new emphasis on contextual factors

Maternal Patterns of Postpartum Alcohol Consumption by Age: A Longitudinal Analysis of Adult Urban Mothers

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