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. 2006 Jun;20(2):117-25.
doi: 10.1037/0893-164X.20.2.117.

College drinking behaviors: mediational links between parenting styles, impulse control, and alcohol-related outcomes

Julie A Patock-Peckham  1 , Antonio A Morgan-Lopez
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College drinking behaviors: mediational links between parenting styles, impulse control, and alcohol-related outcomes

Julie A Patock-Peckham et al. Psychol Addict Behav. 2006 Jun.

Abstract

Mediational links between parenting styles (authoritative, authoritarian, permissive), impulsiveness (general control), drinking control (specific control), and alcohol use and abuse were tested. A pattern-mixture approach (for modeling non-ignorable missing data) with multiple-group structural equation models with 421 (206 female, 215 male) college students was used. Gender was examined as a potential moderator of parenting styles on control processes related to drinking. Specifically, the parent-child gender match was found to have implications for increased levels of impulsiveness (a significant mediator of parenting effects on drinking control). These findings suggest that a parent with a permissive parenting style who is the same gender as the respondent can directly influence control processes and indirectly influence alcohol use and abuse.

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