Offspring of Parents with Gambling Problems: Adjustment Problems and Explanatory Mechanisms |
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Authors: | Frank Vitaro Brigitte Wanner Mara Brendgen Richard E Tremblay |
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Institution: | (1) Research Unit on Children’s Psychosocial Maladjustment, University of Montreal, 3050 Edouard-Montpetit, Montreal, QC, Canada, H3T 1J7;(2) University of Quebec in Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada |
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Abstract: | We compared offspring of problem gamblers (n = 42) to offspring of parents without gambling problems (n = 100) to see (1) whether the two groups differed with respect to depressive feelings and conduct/antisociality problems
and (2) whether ineffective parenting or the offspring’s own gambling problems played a mediating role in this context. Participants
were drawn from a relatively large community-based study (N = 1,872). Parents rated their own gambling and other mental health problems when their children were in mid-adolescence.
The children’s self-reports on depressive feelings and conduct/antisociality problems were assessed at two points in time:
by mid-adolescence and again by early adulthood. Results showed that children of parents with gambling problems reported more
depressive feelings and more conduct problems by mid-adolescence than children of parents without gambling problems. Children
of problem gamblers also experienced an increase in their depressive symptoms from mid-adolescence to early adulthood. Importantly,
ineffective parenting, but not children’s gambling problems, mediated almost all the links between parental problem gambling
and children’s adjustment problems. These results add to a very small data base showing that children of problem gamblers
are at risk for a variety of adjustment problems.
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Keywords: | Parental problem gambling Child adjustment problems Parenting Longitudinal study Community sample |
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