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Monday, February 11, 2008

Perceived parenting styles and tobacco, alcohol and cannabis use among french adolescents: Gender and family structure differentials
Alcohol and Alcoholism 2008 43(1):73-80



To assess associations between parental control or parental emotional support and current tobacco, alcohol or cannabis use among 12–18-year-old students, according to gender and family structure (intact family, reconstituted family, single-parent family).

A negative relationship exists between parental control and substance use, but this relationship is more marked for tobacco (OR a between 1.8 and 5.6 according to level of control, family status and gender) and cannabis (OR between 1.5 and 6.4) than for alcohol (OR a between 1.0 and 2.7). Parental control is more markedly related to substance use in girls than in boys. These tendencies were observed for intact families as well as for single-parent families or reconstituted families. Parental control has a greater impact than emotional support. Among girls, emotional support has a greater impact than among boys.

There is a gradient relationship between parental control and current consumption, especially among girls. Thus, there may be a need for parental control, whatever the family structure.

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