ArticleAlcoholism, clinical and experimental research2019
An Examination of Parental Permissiveness of Alcohol Use and Monitoring, and Their Association with Emerging Adult Drinking Outcomes Across College.
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- It's Not Just What Parents Say, It's Why They Say It: Students' Perceptions of Parents' Motives for Alcohol Communication.Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs · 2025Article
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- Whose Approval Matters Most? Examining Discrepancies in Self- and Other- Perceptions of Drinking.Substance use & misuse · 2024Article
- A Comparison of Parents' and Students' Reports of General and Alcohol-Specific Parenting Behaviors Across the Four Years of College.Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs · 2023Article
- Examining the impact of early college experiences on the cumulative number of alcohol-related consequences.Addictive behaviors · 2022Article
- A cross-cultural comparison of factors associated with marijuana use among college students in the United States and Sweden.International journal of alcohol and drug research · 2021Article
- Examining parental permissiveness toward drinking and perceived ethnic discrimination as risk factors for drinking outcomes among Latinx college students.Addictive behaviors · 2021Article
- Changes in Alcohol Use and Drinking Context due to the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Multimethod Study of College Student Drinkers.Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research · 2021Article
- The Prospective Effects of Parents' and Friends' Approval of Drinking on Simultaneous Alcohol and Marijuana Use during College.Substance use & misuse · 2021Article
- Alcohol Use among Latinx Early Adolescents: Exploring the Role of the Family.Journal of alcohol and drug education · 2019Article
- Long-term impact of familismo and ethnic identity on latinx college student drinking and high-risk consequences.Journal of ethnicity in substance abuseArticle
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Abstract
backgroundStudies have shown that parents have a significant influence on emerging adult college students' drinking during the first year of college. Limited research has been conducted to address the question of whether parenting later in college continues to matter in a similar manner. The current study utilized a prospective design to identify associations between parental permissiveness toward alcohol use and monitoring behaviors and student drinking outcomes during the first and fourth years of college.
methodsParticipants (N = 1,429) at 3 large public universities completed surveys during the fall semesters of their first (T1) and fourth years (T2) (84.3% retention). The study employed a saturated autoregressive cross-lag model to examine associations between parental permissiveness of college student alcohol use, parental monitoring, student drinking, and consequences at T1 and T2, controlling for peer norms, sex, and campus.
resultsExamination of the association between parenting and student drinking outcomes revealed: (i) parental permissiveness was positively associated with drinking at T1 and again at T2; (ii) parental permissiveness had indirect effects on consequences via the effects on drinking at both times. Specifically, a 1-unit increase in parental permissiveness at T1 resulted in students experiencing 4 to 5 more consequences as a result of their drinking; (iii) parental permissiveness was not directly associated with monitoring at T1 or T2; and (iv) parental monitoring was significantly associated with drinking at T1 but not T2.
conclusionsThe findings provide evidence for the continued importance of parenting in the fourth year of college and parents expressing low permissiveness toward student drinking may be beneficial to reducing risky drinking even as students turn 21.
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