The effect of parental drinking on alcohol use in young adults: the mediating role of parental monitoring and peer deviance.

ABSTRACT:

Background and aims

Evidence demonstrating an association between parental alcohol use and offspring alcohol use from robust prospective studies is lacking. We tested the direct and indirect associations between parental and young adult alcohol use via early alcohol initiation, parental monitoring and associating with deviant peers.

Design

Prospective birth cohort study. Path analysis was used to assess the possible association between parental alcohol use (assessed at 12 years) and alcohol use in young adults (assessed at 18 years) via potential mediators (assessed at 14 and 15.5 years, respectively).

Setting

South West England.

Participants

Data were available on 3785 adolescents and their parents from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children.

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SUBMITTER: Mahedy L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6176713 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature