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Easley, Margaret J.; Epstein, Norman – Family Relations, 1991
Investigated the degree to which current alcohol abuse and psychopathology in adult children of alcoholics (COAs) are associated with the COAs' reports of family disruption, family coping, and individual child coping when the child lived with the parent. Family disruption and coping strategies were found to influence the subsequent adult…
Descriptors: Adult Children, Alcohol Abuse, Alcoholism, Coping
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Loukas, Alexandra; Piejak, Lisa A.; Bingham, C. Raymond; Fitzgerald, Hiram E.; Zucker, Robert A. – Family Relations, 2001
Structural equation modeling was used to test the hypothesis that parental distress would mediate relations between parental lifetime alcohol and physical health problems and child behavior problems. Results indicated that sons of parents with alcohol and physical health problems are at elevated risk for behavior problems, partly related to…
Descriptors: Alcohol Abuse, Alcoholism, At Risk Persons, Behavior Problems
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Schwartz, Seth J.; Liddle, Howard A. – Family Relations, 2001
Reported that parental alcoholism is prognostic of childhood behavior problems, both directly, through genetic and modeling effects, and indirectly, through parental distress and physical problems. It was hypothesized that the heightened rate of behavior problems in children of alcoholics could be traced to the combination of negative interactions…
Descriptors: Alcohol Abuse, Alcoholism, Antisocial Behavior, Behavior Problems