Risk Factor: Family Flashcards
Family Influence
The effects that other members of our families have on our thoughts, feelings and behaviour over the course of our development
How does parent approval affect addiction?
Parental approval of behaviours such as drinking, smoking or illegal drugs is a powerful predictor of later abuse and addiction
Evidence - Livingston et al
found that teenagers who had been allowed to drink at home were significantly more likely to be drinking excessively by the time they were at colleg
What does SLT claim?
that behaviours are learned through the observation of those people with whom has the most social contact
How do parents exert influences on their offsprings addictive behaviour? (3 ways)
- they provide social models for their offspring
- by their style of parenting , in terms of their parental control
- by their lack of parenting influence
What did Reith and Debbie find?
- patterns of gambling were transmitted within families in gendered ways
What did Fletcher et al show?
children with authoritative parents were less likely to use drugs and drink alcohol
What did Stattin and Kerr find?
a lack of parental monitoring can lead to children disclosing too much information of their substance abuse to their parents
