모성음주와 여자청소년의 정신병리

Maternal Problem-Drinking and Psychopathology of Female Adolescents

Once females drink alcohol, they are more apt to become alcohol-dependent than males and respond poorly to intervention. Therefore, gender-specific approaches to drinking prevention and treatment are clearly needed. The aims of this article are to investigate the relationship between maternal problem-drinking, substance use, and psychopathology of female adolescents and to compare the maternal problem-drinking group with paternal, parental problem-drinking groups and controls. Ninth grade (N= 420) and 11th grade (N=353) females were divided into maternal drinking groups and controls with the score of Children of Alcoholics Screening Test (CAST) for mother. Two groups were compared for their environmental and substance-related variables, and psychopathology was measured with the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ-SR). Then the subjects were divided into four groups with scores of CAST for mother and father separately and compared the same way. Female adolescents with drinking mothers showed a younger age of first drink-ing, absence of family norms for TV watching, a lot of smoking friends, problem-drinking, and higher scores in the ‘hyperactivity-inattention’ and ‘total difficulties’ sections of the SDQ-SR. ‘Parental drinking’ was the worst condition for adolescent fe-males, followed by ‘maternal drinking only’ and ‘paternal drink-ing only’, successively. However, emotional symptoms were more prevalent in cases of ‘maternal drinking only’. We suggested that the dyad of problem-drinking mother and adolescent female should be a focus of family intervention programs against drinking.