240090 Parent-adolescent discrepancies in reports of adolescent substance use and family relationship in Taiwan

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Fong-ching Chang , Department of Health Education and Health Promotion, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan
Ching-Mei Lee , Department of Health Promotion and Health Education, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan
Nae-Fang Miao , Department of Nursing, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan
Shu-Ching Lee , Section chief of student activities, National Chung-Ho Senior High School, New Taipei, Taiwan
Sieh-Hwa Lin , Department of Educational Psychology and Counseling, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan
Chih-Ning Lung , Chi-Sui Juior High school, New Taipei City, Taiwan
Hsin-Jung Liao , Wen-Shan Junior High School, New Taipei City, Taiwan
This study examined discrepancies between parents and adolescents reports of adolescent's tobacco and alcohol use and family relationship. Data were obtained from a sample of 1,831 parent-adolescent dyads recruited from junior high school in two cities, Taiwan in 2010. The results showed that parents tend to be unaware of their adolescent's tobacco (67.9%) and alcohol use (93.7%). In contrast, parents tend to report higher levels of parent-adolescent attachment, communication and monitoring than their adolescents do. Parent-adolescent discrepancies were more likely to be occurred among lower socioeconomic status (SES) and disrupted family. In addition, lower adolescent's ratings of family attachment, communication and adolescent's delinquent behaviors were associated with grater parental unawareness of tobacco and alcohol use. In conclusion, there were considerable parent-adolescent discrepancies in reports of adolescent substance use and family relationship especially for lower SES family.

Learning Areas:
Public health or related education
Social and behavioral sciences

Learning Objectives:
1. Identify parent-adolescent discrepancies in reports of adolescent substance use and family relationship. 2. Articulate the relationsip between parent-adolescent discrepancies in reports of adolescent substance use and family relationship.

Keywords: Alcohol Use, Adolescents

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am the Principal Investigator for this research.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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