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Saturday, September 12, 2009

Intergenerational Transmission of Alcohol Expectancies in a High-Risk Sample
J. Stud. Alcohol Drugs 70: 675-682, 2009

The goal of the present study was to examine prospectively two interrelated processes simultaneously: (1) the intergenerational transmission of alcohol expectancies and (2) the intergenerational transmission of alcohol use.

These results suggest that fathers' alcohol-use behavior is more influential in boys' alcohol expectancy development than are fathers' expectancies and that alcohol expectancies during emerging adulthood may be one mechanism underlying the intergenerational transmission of drinking among males.


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