TY - JOUR
T1 - Pathways to children's externalizing behavior
T2 - A three-generation study
AU - Brook, Judith S.
AU - Zhang, Chenshu
AU - Balka, Elinor B.
AU - Brook, David W.
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by Research Scientist Award DA00244 and research grant DA03188, both from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and research grant CA094845 from the National Cancer Institute, all awarded to Dr. Judith S. Brook.
Funding Information:
Judith S. Brook is a professor of psychiatry at the New York University School of Medicine and an adjunct professor of community and preventive medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. She is the recipient of a Research Scientist Award from NIDA and is the principal investigator (PI) or co-PI on several grants supported by NIDA and the National Cancer Institute. Her current research focuses on the etiology and consequences of psychopathology, tobacco, and drug use using a longitudinal, developmental perspective. Chenshu Zhang is an associate professor of psychiatry at the New York University School of Medicine. He is the statistician and coauthor of over 30 research papers in the area of the etiology and consequences of tobacco and drug use using a longitudinal, developmental perspective. Elinor B. Balka is an assistant research scientist in the Department of Psychiatry at the New York University School of Medicine. She has been the project director for a longitudinal study of predictors and consequences of tobacco, alcohol, and illicit drug use among a sample of Puerto Ricans and African Americans who are now young adults. David W. Brook is a professor of psychiatry at New York University School of Medicine and an adjunct professor of community and preventive medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
PY - 2012/4/1
Y1 - 2012/4/1
N2 - In this study, based on Family Interactional Theory (FIT), the authors tested a longitudinal model of the intergenerational effects of the grandmothers parent-child relationships and the grandparents smoking on the grandchildren's externalizing behavior via parents psychological symptoms, tobacco use, and child rearing. Using Mplus, the authors obtained a structural equation model that demonstrated generational associations from grandmothers (G1) to parents (G2) to their oldest children (G3) and thus was in accord with FIT. They identified a pathway from the grandmothers' parenting to the grandchildren's externalizing behavior via the parents psychological symptoms, their smoking, and their child rearing. Parents psychological symptoms in adolescence were associated with their tobacco use in their late twenties, controlling for the continuity of their psychological symptoms and their tobacco use. This 3-generational model adds to the literature on parent-child relationships (G1), smoking from adolescence to early adulthood (G2), and externalizing behavior in the G3 child.
AB - In this study, based on Family Interactional Theory (FIT), the authors tested a longitudinal model of the intergenerational effects of the grandmothers parent-child relationships and the grandparents smoking on the grandchildren's externalizing behavior via parents psychological symptoms, tobacco use, and child rearing. Using Mplus, the authors obtained a structural equation model that demonstrated generational associations from grandmothers (G1) to parents (G2) to their oldest children (G3) and thus was in accord with FIT. They identified a pathway from the grandmothers' parenting to the grandchildren's externalizing behavior via the parents psychological symptoms, their smoking, and their child rearing. Parents psychological symptoms in adolescence were associated with their tobacco use in their late twenties, controlling for the continuity of their psychological symptoms and their tobacco use. This 3-generational model adds to the literature on parent-child relationships (G1), smoking from adolescence to early adulthood (G2), and externalizing behavior in the G3 child.
KW - externalizing
KW - intergenerational transmission
KW - parenting
KW - smoking
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U2 - 10.1080/00221325.2011.594821
DO - 10.1080/00221325.2011.594821
M3 - Article
C2 - 22708480
AN - SCOPUS:84862109386
SN - 0022-1325
VL - 173
SP - 175
EP - 197
JO - Journal of Genetic Psychology
JF - Journal of Genetic Psychology
IS - 2
ER -
