Substance Abuse In Adolescent Parenting Styles

amount of warmth (Smith & Hall, 2008). Smith and Hall conducted a study in 2008 with 617 adolescents to find a correlation between their substance abuse and parenting style. The adolescents were questioned about alcohol, marijuana, crack/cocaine, and heroin. Surveys were utilized for this study. The neglectful parenting style, which researchers defined as showing the least amount of affection and effort spent disciplining your child, was found to lead to the highest rates of alcohol and substance abuse in these adolescents. This study also surveyed the teens about days they had problems from the alcohol or substance abuse. The neglectful-permissive parenting style led to more days they had problems from their alcohol or substance abuse. A study
The literature on this topic has overwhelmingly shown that this parenting style is correlated with the lowest rates of alcohol and substance abuse in adolescents. A study in 2008 conducted by Barrett and Turner aimed to find correlations between substance use in adolescents and family structure and explanations for those correlations. 1,760 adolescents between the ages of seventeen and twenty-three were surveyed on different elements of their lives, including substance use problems, family structure, family processes, and more. This study defined family processes by asking questions including what parenting style is used, perceived level of familial support, and whether the family approves of the adolescents’ substance abuse. Indexes were used for each of the items and defined the variables by asking the how much the adolescent feels loved, on the scale, and more. Results from this study indicated that the adolescents who were raised in a non-authoritative household and had the lowest amount of perceived familial support had the highest rates of problematic substance abuse, as defined by the study. Similar studies reported the same findings. In the study conducted by Smith & Hall (2008), the researcher’s hypothesis was supported when the authoritative parenting style was also found to lead to the lowest rates of alcohol and substance abuse in the
In a study conducted by Choquet et al. in 2007, researchers looked to find a relationship between parental control and substance abuse in students from sixth to twelfth grade. Parental control was addressed by asking the adolescents, ‘my parents know where I am on Saturday evenings (always, often, sometimes, seldom, or never)’. The researchers examined this relationship between parental communication with the use of alcohol, tobacco, and cannabis. This question can be interpreted in many ways, including parental control, communication, and more. If this question was interpreted as parental control, the results indicated a negative relationship between parental control and adolescent alcohol and