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Ohannessian, Christine McCauley – Journal of Child and Family Studies, 2009
This study examined media use and psychological adjustment (as indicated by depression and anxiety symptomatology) in a sample of 328 14- to 16-year-old adolescents. Primary goals of the study were to explore whether media use differs by gender, whether media use is related to adolescent psychological problems, and whether media use moderates the…
Descriptors: Video Games, Parent Child Relationship, Alcoholism, Adolescents
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Smart, Reginald G.; Fejer, Dianne – Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 1972
Data suggested that adolescents modeled their drug use after parental use and that in order to reduce adolescent use parental use would have to be reduced. (Authors)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Alcoholism, Drug Abuse, Marihuana
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Berkowitz, Alan; Perkins, H. Wesley – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1988
Compared the personality characteristics of late adolescent and young adult children of alcoholics (COAs) with those of their peers, examining gender specificity in personality differences. COA respondents, particularly women, and especially women with alcoholic fathers, were more likely to report greater self-depreciation. Male COAs rated…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adult Children, Alcohol Abuse, Alcoholism