The proposed study is an extension of our current research concerning the role of the father in his offspring's drug use. Whereas in the past we have centered our attention on father-son relations, here we are concerned with father-daughter. The study is designed to examine paternal personality characteristics and child-rearing practices as related to the daughter's drug use. We also plan to examine these paternal factors in interaction with adolescentt personality attributes and the family and peer systems in relation to the females' a) choice of drugs and b) mild versus heavy use of tobacco and marijuana. Our conceptualizations are rooted in the disciplines of psychology, psychiatry, and sociology. Self-administered questionnaires will be given to 300 female college students (from intact homes) and their fathers in the fall of 1982. Both the student and the father questionnaires will include a number of scales with adequate psychometric properties designed to tap paternal personality characteristics, paternal child-rearing practices, adolescent personality attributes, and family context and peer variables. A series of questions on both licit and illicit drug use pertaining to the adolescent as well as to significant other in her environment will also be included. Data obtained in the proposed father-daughter study will be compared with data obtained in our current father-son study, so that the father's role in his offsprings' development may be more comprehensively assessed. Our primary analytic technique will be hierarchical multiple regression. The major contribution of the study will be to provide data on the paternal determinants of female drug use, an area about which very little is known at the present time. This information should provide greater understanding of the father's role in the family, as well as a more complete knowledge of drug use both of which are necessary for purposes of prevention and treatment of adolescent drug use.

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
Type
Research Project (R01)
Project #
5R01DA002390-08
Application #
3207286
Study Section
(DACA)
Project Start
1979-07-01
Project End
1988-12-31
Budget Start
1985-01-01
Budget End
1985-12-31
Support Year
8
Fiscal Year
1985
Total Cost
Indirect Cost
Name
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Department
Type
Schools of Medicine
DUNS #
City
New York
State
NY
Country
United States
Zip Code
10029
Polusny, Melissa A; Ries, Barry J; Meis, Laura A et al. (2011) Effects of parents' experiential avoidance and PTSD on adolescent disaster-related posttraumatic stress symptomatology. J Fam Psychol 25:220-9
Brook, J S; Whiteman, M; Brook, D W et al. (1991) Sibling influences on adolescent drug use: older brothers on younger brothers. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 30:958-66
Brook, J S; Brook, D W; Gordon, A S et al. (1990) The psychosocial etiology of adolescent drug use: a family interactional approach. Genet Soc Gen Psychol Monogr 116:111-267
Brook, J S; Whiteman, M; Gordon, A S et al. (1990) The role of older brothers in younger brothers' drug use viewed in the context of parent and peer influences. J Genet Psychol 151:59-75
Brook, J E; Brook, J S (1988) A developmental approach examining social and personal correlates in relation to alcohol use over time. J Genet Psychol 149:93-110
Brook, J S; Gordon, A S; Brook, D W (1987) Fathers and daughters: their relationship and personality characteristics associated with the daughter's smoking behavior. J Genet Psychol 148:31-44
Brook, J S; Whiteman, M; Gordon, A S et al. (1985) Father's influence on his daughter's marijuana use viewed in a mother and peer context. Adv Alcohol Subst Abuse 4:165-90