Gender Differences: Emotional Distress as an Indirect Effect Between Family Cohesion and Adolescent Alcohol Use

Soloski, Kristy L.; Berryhill, M. Blake

doi:10.1007/s10826-015-0311-7

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“…Further analysis on the basis of the gender of the participant showed higher levels of perceived poor family cohesion among the bereaved female participants compared with the non‐bereaved females, while no significant difference was found between the male participants. Family relationships have been shown to be especially prominent to female adolescents' well‐being, and they experience more emotional distress as a reaction to poor family cohesion compared with boys . Bereaved girls have also been shown to have greater likelihood to internalize problems and greater vulnerability than boys as well as a stronger likelihood to take on more responsibility for the family life .…”

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Losing a parent to cancer as a teenager: Family cohesion in childhood, teenage, and young adulthood as perceived by bereaved and non‐bereaved youths

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Objective The aim of this study was to investigate levels of perceived family cohesion during childhood, teenage years, and young adulthood in cancer‐bereaved youths compared with non‐bereaved peers. Methods In this nationwide, population‐based study, 622 (73%) young adults (aged 18‐26) who had lost a parent to cancer 6 to 9 years previously, when they were teenagers (aged 13–16), and 330 (78%) non‐bereaved peers from a matched random sample answered a study‐specific questionnaire. Associations were assessed using multivariable logistic regression. Results Compared with non‐bereaved youths, the cancer‐bereaved participants were more likely to report poor family cohesion during teenage years (odds ratio [OR] 1.6, 95% CI, 1.0‐2.4, and 2.3, 95% CI, 1.5‐3.5, for paternally and maternally bereaved youths, respectively). This was also seen in young adulthood among maternally bereaved participants (OR 2.5; 95% CI, 1.6‐4.1), while there was no difference between paternally bereaved and non‐bereaved youths. After controlling for a number of covariates (eg, year of birth, number of siblings, and depression), the adjusted ORs for poor family cohesion remained statistically significant. In a further analysis stratified for gender, this difference in perceived poor family cohesion was only noted in females. Conclusion Teenage loss of a parent to cancer was associated with perceived poor family cohesion during teenage years. This was also noted in young adulthood among the maternally bereaved. Females were more likely to report poor family cohesion. Our results indicate a need for increased awareness of family cohesion in bereaved‐to‐be families with teenage offspring, with special attention to gender roles.

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Losing a parent to cancer as a teenager: Family cohesion in childhood, teenage, and young adulthood as perceived by bereaved and non‐bereaved youths

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“…The higher rate of cigarette use among pairs of half-siblings is consistent with previous work indicating that half-siblings in blended families have higher rates of externalizing problems, including substance use (Kendler et al, 2012) and criminal behavior (Kendler, Lönn, Maes, Sundquist, & Sundquist, 2015). Studies of the emotional well-being and adjustment of children and adolescents who experience changes in family structure reveals that externalizing problems might be due to receiving lower levels of parental emotional availability, experiencing multiple family transitions in family structure, or living in home environments characterized by parental discord (Marcynyszyn, Evans, & Eckenrode, 2008; Soloski & Berryhill, 2016). Such family stressors extend to initiating substances use in adolescence as well (Gutman, Eccles, Peck, & Malanchuk, 2011).…”

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Familial and Special Twin Influences on Cigarette Use Initiation

2017

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Background Shared experiences within families play an important role in the initiation of cigarette use among adolescents. Behavioral genetic studies using various samples have implicated that the shared environment that twins experience is an important source of influence on whether adolescents initiate cigarette use. Whether the special twin environment, in addition to the shared environment, contributes significantly to making twin siblings more similar in cigarette initiation and whether the influence of the special twin environment persists into adulthood is less clear. Methods Data for this study came from the National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent Health. Twin, full-, and half-sibling pairs between the ages of 12 and 33 were separated into three age groups, with about 3,000 individuals in each age group. The proportion of variance in cigarette use initiation explained by genetic, shared, special twin, and unique environmental factors were examined. Results The results of separate age-moderated univariate variance decomposition models indicate that the special twin environment does not significantly contribute to the variance in cigarette use initiation in young adulthood. Conclusion Factors shared by members of a family but are not specific to being a twin, are important in determining whether adolescents will initiate the use of cigarettes.

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“…All analyses were first conducted among the full sample and then repeated separately for male and female participants. Based on past studies that support gender specificity in terms of parent-child intergenerational transmission of substance use patterns and parental influence on adolescent alcohol use (Kelly et al, 2011a, 2011b; Soloski and Berryhill, 2016; Windle and Windle, 2012; Yu and Perrine, 1997), we predict stronger associations between mother behaviors and emerging adult outcomes among mother-daughter dyads than among mother-son dyads ( Hypothesis 4 ).…”

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“…It is also important to consider the gender of the child as well as which parent (mother or father) is the modeling or bonding source. There is some evidence that family processes may be more closely related to girls' substance use compared to boys (Kelly et al, 2011a, 2011b; Soloski and Berryhill, 2016), and that there is gender specificity in terms of intergenerational transmission of substance use patterns (Windle and Windle, 2012; Yu and Perrine, 1997). Although a few studies have examined moderation effects among emerging adult samples (Cleveland et al, 2014; Jung, 1995; Pearson et al, 2012; White et al, 2000), no studies have examined these processes among African American emerging adults.…”

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The Effects of Mothers' Protective Parenting and Alcohol Use on Emerging Adults' Alcohol Use: Testing Indirect Effects Through Prototype Favorability Among African American Youth

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Gibbons

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Alcoholism Clin & Exp Res

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Gender Differences: Emotional Distress as an Indirect Effect Between Family Cohesion and Adolescent Alcohol Use

Cited by 15 publications

References 55 publications

Losing a parent to cancer as a teenager: Family cohesion in childhood, teenage, and young adulthood as perceived by bereaved and non‐bereaved youths

Losing a parent to cancer as a teenager: Family cohesion in childhood, teenage, and young adulthood as perceived by bereaved and non‐bereaved youths

Familial and Special Twin Influences on Cigarette Use Initiation

The Effects of Mothers' Protective Parenting and Alcohol Use on Emerging Adults' Alcohol Use: Testing Indirect Effects Through Prototype Favorability Among African American Youth

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