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Perceived parental acceptance-rejection, psychological adjustment and alcohol drinking patterns among adolescents

The aim of the study was to explore the relationship between parental acceptance- rejection and alcohol drinking patterns among adolescents. The sample consisted of high school students from Zagreb, Croatia, aged between 14 and 19 years (N=572). Adolescents completed Rohner’s Parental Acceptance-Rejection Questionnaire (Mother and Father version), Personality Assessment Questionaire, and self- report questionnaire about alcohol drinking patterns. Results showed that 66.8% of adolescents drank alcohol in the month prior to the research, and about half of adolescents engaged in binge drinking in the year prior to the research. Alcohol use in the month prior to the research was positively correlated with age, perceived paternal and maternal hostility- aggression, perceived maternal indifference- neglect, and adolescents’ emotional instability and hostility-aggression ; while it was negatively correlated with perceived paternal and maternal warmth-affection. Binge drinking was positively correlated with age, perceived maternal hostility-aggression, and adolescents’ emotional instability and hostility-aggression ; and negatively with perceived maternal warmth- affection. Results of hierarchical regression analysis showed that, after controlling for age and gender, maternal indifference-neglect and adolescents’ hostility-aggression predicted alcohol use in the month prior to the research. Adolescents who perceived more neglect from their mothers, and who were more aggressive, drank alcohol more often. Results of the second hierarchical regression analysis showed that, after controlling for age and gender, only adolescents’ hostility-aggression predicted adolescent binge drinking. Adolescents who were more aggressive more often engaged in binge drinking.

parental acceptance-rejection, psychological adjustment, alcohol, binge drinking, Croatia

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