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Title: Impact of Maternal Problem Drinking on Children's Developmental Outcomes: Focus on Parenting as Mediator
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Seo, Gye Soon Kong |
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Impact of Maternal Problem Drinking on Children's Developmental Outcomes: Focus on Parenting as Mediator Ph.D. Dissertation, The Ohio State University: 1998 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: UMI - University Microfilms, Bell and Howell Information and Learning Keyword(s): Alcohol Use; Child Development; Child Self-Administered Supplement (CSAS); Children, Behavioral Development; Family Structure; Gender; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Mothers, Behavior; Mothers, Education; Parenting Skills/Styles; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Poverty; Racial Differences; Social Work The purpose of the present study was to investigate the role of parenting practice as potential mediator of the influence of maternal problem drinking on children's developmental outcomes. Child outcomes were examined in terms of non-normative behaviors, depressive mood, and reading performance. Areas of parenting practice examined were maternal warmth, cognitive stimulation, child-parent joint activity, maternal supervision, emotional closeness between child and mother, child's participation in making rules, and conflict between parent and child over rules. Binge drinking, which is defined as alcohol consumption of 6 or more drinks at one time in the past month, was used as a criteria of problem drinking status. Several sociodemographic characteristics such as poverty status, family structure, mother's education, number of children, race, child's age and gender were included as control variables. The subjects of this study were drawn from among a group of children 10 to 14 years of age and their mothers who responded to a survey conducted in 1994 as part of the National Longitudinal Surveys on Youth (NLSY). A series of regression analyses were conducted, and the relationships among major variables were presented in path diagrams. The results showed that maternal problem drinking was associated with children's increased non-normative behaviors and poor reading performance, but maternal problem drinking was not associated with children's depressive mood. Maternal problem drinking was associated with less maternal warmth and less cognitive stimulation, but it was not associated with other dimensions of parenting practices. Less cognitive stimulation and less maternal warmth were associated with increased children's non-normative behaviors and poor performance in reading tests, but they were not associated with scores on the measures of depression. Parenting practices, specifically in terms of maternal warmth and cognitive stimulation, had a mediating function in the impact of maternal problem drinking on children's non-normative behaviors and reading performance. However, the mediating effects of parenting were very small, and the direct effects of maternal binge drinking on child outcomes remained strong after controlling the effects of parenting variables. Major findings were discussed in terms of previous research findings. Several suggestions were made for social work practice and future studies of children with parental problem drinking. |
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Seo, Gye Soon Kong. Impact of Maternal Problem Drinking on Children's Developmental Outcomes: Focus on Parenting as Mediator. Ph.D. Dissertation, The Ohio State University: 1998. |