Toddler Adjustment: Impact of Parents' Drug Use, Personality, and Parent–Child Relations
- 1 September 1996
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in The Journal of Genetic Psychology
- Vol. 157 (3), 281-295
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00221325.1996.9914866
Abstract
The intercorrelations among parents' drug use, personality, and parent–child relations and the child's anxious/regressive and reflective behaviors were investigated in a sample of 2-year-olds (N = 115). The results indicate that maternal child-rearing practices mediate the effect of maternal personality attributes on the child's intrapsychic functioning. The father's drug use had a direct influence on the child's reflective behavior. Generally, the mother's drug use, personality, and child-rearing practices were more important than the father's attributes. However, the father's drug use had a strong impact on the child when it interacted with the mother's drug use. Parental differences and implications for prevention are discussed.Keywords
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