ReACH Lab Graduate Student Publishes 1st First-Authored Publication on Mother-Child Dynamics
ReACH Lab graduate student, Nilofar Fallah-Sohy, has published their 1st first-authored publication titled “Mother–child dynamics: Examining reciprocal relations between parental knowledge, child disclosure, parental legitimacy beliefs, and adolescent alcohol use” in the Journal of Research on Adolescence. Their study examined the bidirectional effects of two pairs of variables alongside each other (parental knowledge and child disclosure as well as youth-reported alcohol use and perceived legitimacy of parent authority). The data was derived and analyzed across three waves in a community sample of 304 mother-child dyads. They estimated a cross-lagged panel model utilizing repeated measures of adolescent alcohol use, perceived legitimacy of parent authority, parental knowledge, and child disclosure. The novel findings showed that in early adolescence, child disclosure along with parent knowledge and perceived legitimacy of parental authority, have a positive reciprocal association; alcohol use across adolescence was negatively predicted by legitimacy of parental authority; and child alcohol use negatively predicted parental knowledge among mothers in later adolescence. The effects were not reciprocated nor sustained. These findings demonstrate that the parental legitimacy beliefs predict reduced alcohol use and have a reciprocal association with child disclosure. ...
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