The way children are raised, and particularly a negative parenting environment, is suggested to be a key factor in the development of alcohol abuse in adolescence. With alcohol abuse being a danger...Show moreThe way children are raised, and particularly a negative parenting environment, is suggested to be a key factor in the development of alcohol abuse in adolescence. With alcohol abuse being a danger to adolescents’ health, social, and professional life, it is of the highest importance to find ways to prevent adolescent alcohol abuse before it’s onset. The current study focusses on adolescents with a past of negative family environments. The study measures parenting environment and alcohol use with a combination of the Measure of Parenting Style (MOPS) questionnaire, the Alabama Parenting Questionnaire (APQ) and the Drugs, Alcohol and Self-Injury Inventory (DASI), and researches with regression if having experienced more overall negative parenting is a predictor for more alcohol use in adolescence. Secondly, gender was taken into account as a dummy variable, which made it possible to research possible differences in relationships between parenting and alcohol use in female and male adolescents. For both research questions, no significant results were found. In the current study, experienced negative family environments had no influence on the drinking habits of adolescents with a past of child abuse or other youth trauma. While this seems to contradict earlier research, it may also provide us with the new idea that not overall parenting but only specific guidelines concerning alcohol use in parenting help regulate the alcohol use of children later in life.Show less
Previous research found that personality and chronotype both are significant predictors of alcohol consumption. This study examined the personality type neuroticism and the evening chronotype as...Show morePrevious research found that personality and chronotype both are significant predictors of alcohol consumption. This study examined the personality type neuroticism and the evening chronotype as possible correlates of increased alcohol consumption. Additionally, we aimed to find a moderating effect of eveningness in the relationship between neuroticism and alcohol consumption. The Netherlands Study of Depression and Anxiety (NESDA) included 2,981 participants between the ages of 18 and 65 and a total of more than eight questionnaires, from which we used the Munich Chronotype Questionnaire (MCTQ), Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Test (AUDIT) and Neuroticism-Extraversion-Openness Five-Factor Inventory (NEO-FFI). Results showed a significant association between eveningness and alcohol consumption. The predicted moderation effect of eveningness was not found. The findings of this study may give a better understanding of possible risk factors for increased alcohol consumption, by verifying the predicted association between eveningness and increased alcohol consumption. Future research may however look further into the working mechanisms of eveningness with respect to the susceptibility of increased alcohol consumption.Show less
