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KMID : 0870520080120020083
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Journal of Korean Academy of Addiction Psychiatry
2008 Volume.12 No. 2 p.83 ~ p.87
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Maternal Problem-Drinking and Psychopathology of Female Adolescents
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Ahn Joung-Sook
Chang Hyung-Min
Kim Min-Hyock
Kim Hae-Ji
Shin Jong-Ho
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Abstract
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Once females drink alcohol, they are more apt to become alcohol-dependent than males and respond poorly to intervention. Therefore, gender-specific approaches to drinking prevention and treatment are clearly needed. The aims of this article are to investigate the relationship between maternal problem-drinking, substance use, and psychopathology of female adolescents and to compare the maternal problem-drinking group with paternal, parental problem-drinking groups and controls. Ninth grade (N= 420) and 11th grade (N=353) females were divided into maternal drinking groups and controls with the score of Children of Alcoholics Screening Test (CAST) for mother. Two groups were compared for their environmental and substance-related variables, and psychopathology was measured with the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ-SR). Then the subjects were divided into four groups with scores of CAST for mother and father separately and compared the same way. Female adolescents with drinking mothers showed a younger age of first drinking, absence of family norms for TV watching, a lot of smoking friends, problem-drinking, and higher scores in the ‘hyperactivity-inattention’ and ‘total difficulties’ sections of the SDQ-SR. ‘Parental drinking’ was the worst condition for adolescent females, followed by ‘maternal drinking only’ and ‘paternal drinking only’, successively. However, emotional symptoms were more prevalent in cases of ‘maternal drinking only’. We suggested that the dyad of problem-drinking mother and adolescent female should be a focus of family intervention programs against drinking.
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KEYWORD
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Maternal drinking, Female adolescent, Psychopathology
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