Children of Drug Abusing Fathers

吸毒父亲的孩子

基本信息

批准号：
6865327
负责人：
WILLIAM S FALS-STEWART
金额：
$ 38.03万
依托单位：
RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2005
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2005-08-01 至 2010-06-30
项目状态：
已结题

项目摘要

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Over the last century, an extensive empirical literature has evolved examining the psychosocial adjustment of Children of Alcoholics (i.e., COAs). In general, these investigations have concluded that COAs are at heightened risk for a host of emotional and behavioral problems compared to children of nonalcoholic parents. Conversely, research examining the psychosocial functioning of children whose parents primarily abuse drugs other than alcohol, often referred to as Children of Substance Abusers (i.e., COSAs), is far less evolved than the COA literature. Although results of available studies suggest COSAs are at heightened risk for psychological, social, and behavioral problems, it is far less clear what risk and protective factors may be associated with these observed adjustment problems. To date, the vast majority of investigations of COSAs have focused on children of drug-abusing mothers. Although many leading investigative teams have called for research examining psychosocial adjustment of children with drug-abusing fathers, they have noted consistently efforts to obtain data from such families have been fraught with substantial logistic difficulties. Drug abuse by fathers, with its broad implications for the family environment (e.g., poor parenting, parental conflict, stressful home life) and for the child (e.g., genetic transmission of characteristics that may increase vulnerability), is likely to be an important risk factor for psychosocial maladjustment of their custodial children. Thus, recruitment and methodological barriers notwithstanding, the fact that the effects of paternal drug misuse on their children have been substantially understudied represents a serious gap in the empirical literature. The primary aim of the proposed 5-year study is to examine the psychosocial adjustment of preadolescent custodial children (i.e., 8-12 years of age) who live in two-parent homes with drug-abusing fathers and nonsubstance-abusing mothers (N = 150). To provide a comparative context, these children and their families will be compared to demographically matched children from homes with alcoholic fathers and nonsubstance-abusing mothers (N = 150) and from homes with nonsubstance-abusing parents (N = 150). Additionally, we will be examining several mediating risk factors (e.g., parenting behavior, child temperament, interparental conflict) and protective factors (e.g., children's cognitive ability, social support) that may partially or fully explain differences among the children from homes with either a drug-abusing, alcoholic, and nonsubstance-abusing father. Changes in risk and protective factors, as well as children's adjustment, will be evaluated during the course of three annual waves of data collection.

描述（由申请人提供）：在上个世纪，广泛的经验文献已经进化，研究了酗酒儿童的社会心理调整（即COAS）。通常，这些调查得出的结论是，与非酒精性父母的孩子相比，COA面临许多情绪和行为问题的风险。相反，研究儿童的社会心理功能的研究主要是滥用酒精以外的其他药物，通常被称为滥用药物的孩子（即COSAS），其进化远不如COA文献发展。尽管可用研究的结果表明，COSA面临心理，社会和行为问题的风险增加，但尚不清楚与这些观察到的调整问题有关的风险和保护因素可能与哪些风险和保护因素有关。迄今为止，对COSA的绝大多数调查都集中在滥用毒品的母亲的儿童上。尽管许多领先的调查团队呼吁研究研究毒品滥用父亲的儿童的社会心理调整，但他们注意到，从这些家庭中获取数据的努力一直充满了逻辑上的困难。父亲对家庭环境的广泛影响（例如，育儿差，父母冲突，家庭生活压力）和孩子（例如，特征可能会增加脆弱性的遗传传播）的滥用，可能是对监管儿童的心理社会疾病的重要风险因素。因此，尽管存在招募和方法论障碍，但对父亲药物滥用对子女的影响的事实已被大大研究了，这在经验文献中代表了严重的差距。拟议的5年研究的主要目的是检查居住在两位父母的住所中，虐待毒品的父亲和滥用毒品的母亲（n = 150），他们住在两位父母的家庭中的心理心理调整（即8-12岁）。为了提供比较的背景，将将这些儿童及其家人与具有酗酒父亲和非遗产的母亲（n = 150）的人口匹配的儿童以及与虐待父母的父母（n = 150）的家庭相提并论。此外，我们将研究几个调解风险因素（例如，育儿行为，儿童气质，互室冲突）和保护因素（例如，儿童的认知能力，社会支持），可能会部分或完全解释与毒品，酗酒，酗酒和不顾问的父亲的家庭中的差异。风险和保护因素的变化以及儿童调整将在三年的数据收集过程中进行评估。