%0 Journal Article
%T School Adjustment and Substance Use in Early Adolescent Boys: Association With Paternal Alcoholism With and Without Dad in the Home
%A Frank Vitaro
%A Rene Carbonneau
%A Richard E. Tremblay
%J The Journal of Early Adolescence
%@ 1552-5449
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0272431617708054
%X The present study examined the association of paternal alcoholism with early adolescent boysĄ¯ school adjustment and substance use, and its moderation by paternal absence, controlling for parentsĄ¯ socioeconomic resources. A community sample of 653 urban, low socioeconomic status (SES) families from Montreal, Canada, was assessed and information collected from parents, teachers, and adolescentsĄ¯ self-reports, and school records. Paternal alcoholism was significantly associated with boysĄ¯ lower academic performance, lower grades, higher frequency of tobacco, marijuana and hard drugs use, of getting drunk, and using a variety of hard drugs. However, the separation from the alcoholic father represented a significant factor of moderation in regard to boysĄ¯ substance use: Sons of alcoholic fathers living with their dad in intact families were more likely to use tobacco and marijuana, to get drunk, and to use a variety of hard drugs than their peers not living with their alcoholic father, whether in single-mother or stepfamilies
%K children of alcoholics
%K paternal alcoholism
%K parental separation
%K early adolescence
%K psychopathology
%K school adjustment
%K substance use
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0272431617708054