Parent-child relationships and sexual minority youth: Implications for adult alcohol abuse

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• Alternative Title:
  J Youth Adolesc
• Personal Author:
  Fish, Jessica N. ; Russell, Beth S. ; Watson, Ryan J. ; Russell, Stephen T.
• Description:
  Sexual minority (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and same-sex attracted) youth and adults report elevated rates of alcohol use and abuse relative to their heterosexual peers; these differences are strongest for sexual minority girls and women. Although preliminary evidence suggests that unsupportive parenting and maladaptive parent-child relationship qualities are associated with concurrent substance use among sexual minority youth, questions remain about the long-term implications of these early familial experiences on drinking behaviors among sexual minority youth and adults. Nationally-representative prospective data (n = 14,800; 53.1% female; Wave 1 Mean age = 15.61; Wave 4 Mean age = 28.51) were used to test the longitudinal association between parent-child relationships and parental autonomy granting between the ages of 13-18, and sexual-orientation-related disparities in alcohol abuse during adulthood. The findings showed that adolescent same-sex attraction was associated with alcohol abuse during adulthood for sexual minority women and that deficits in parent-child relationship quality statistically mediated this association. No sexual orientation differences in alcohol abuse were found among men. The findings suggest that the quality of relationships with parents in early adolescence has long-lasting impact on sexual minority women's vulnerability for alcohol abuse. Early interventions that bolster supportive parent-child relationship qualities may have enduring consequences for sexual minority women's alcohol use across the life course.
• Subjects:
  Adolescent Adult Alcohol Abuse Alcoholism Article Bisexuality Child Female Humans LGB Youth Longitudinal Male Parent-Child Relations Parental Support Parenting Prospective Studies Sexual And Gender Minorities Sexual Behavior Sexual Minority Youth

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• Source:
  J Youth Adolesc. 49(10):2034-2046
• Pubmed ID:
  32772330
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC7487049
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  P01 HD031921/HD/NICHD NIH HHSUnited States/ ; U48 DP006382/DP/NCCDPHP CDC HHSUnited States/ ; F32 AA023138/AA/NIAAA NIH HHSUnited States/ ; P2C HD042849/HD/NICHD NIH HHSUnited States/ ; K01 DA047918/DA/NIDA NIH HHSUnited States/ ; P2C HD041041/HD/NICHD NIH HHSUnited States/
• Volume:
  49
• Issue:
  10
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:e69362e0cc309f656c15e50bfd853d6c945c002a602ad3680ae08321c4f422ac
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/93698/cdc_93698_DS1.pdf
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