TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2008//
TI  - Disaggregating the distal, proximal, and time-varying effects of parent alcoholism on children's internalizing symptoms
JO  - Journal of abnormal child psychology
A1  - Hussong, Andrea M.
A1  - Cai, Le
A1  - Curran, P. J.
A1  - Flora, David B.
A1  - Chassin, L. A.
A1  - Zucker, Robert A.
SP  - 335
EP  - 346
VL  - 36
IS  - 3
N2  - We tested whether children show greater internalizing symptoms when their parents are actively abusing alcohol. In an integrative data analysis, we combined observations over ages 2 through 17 from two longitudinal studies of children of alcoholic parents and matched controls recruited from the community. Using a mixed modeling approach, we tested whether children showed elevated mother- and child-reported internalizing symptoms (a) at the same time that parents showed alcohol-related consequences (time-varying effects), (b) if parents showed greater alcohol-related consequences during the study period (proximal effects), and (c) if parents had a lifetime diagnosis of alcoholism that predated the study period (distal effects). No support for time-varying effects was found; proximal effects of mothers' alcohol-related consequences on child-reported internalizing symptoms were found and distal effects of mother and father alcoholism predicted greater internalizing symptoms among children of alcoholic parents. Implications for the time-embedded relations between parent alcoholism and children's internalizing symptoms are discussed.<p /> <p>Language: en</p> 
LA  - en
SN  - 0091-0627
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10802-007-9181-9
ID  - ref1
ER  -