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Title: The Role of Parenting Style in Child Substance Use
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Malik, Garima |
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The Role of Parenting Style in Child Substance Use Working Paper, Department of Economics, The Ohio State University, December 18, 2002 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79 Publisher: Department of Economics, The Ohio State University Keyword(s): Alcohol Use; Child Self-Administered Supplement (CSAS); Drug Use; Modeling, Probit; Parent-Child Relationship/Closeness; Parental Influences; Parenting Skills/Styles; Parents, Behavior; Smoking (see Cigarette Use); Substance Use Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Strategic interactions between parents and children are potentially important in predicting the behaviour of the children. This dissertation adopts an inter-disciplinary approach drawing from development psychology and the economics of incentives to develop and estimate a model of the effects of parenting styles on the psychosocial process leading to substance use by children ages 10-14. The dissertation uses the Baumrind classification of authoritative, authoritarian, permissive and disengaged parents to construct parenting styles according to the dimensions of demandingness and responsiveness. Principal component analysis is used to develop indices of these two dimensions from a series of categorical responses to questions about usual parental reactions to misbehaviour. Scaling technique is used to check the coefficients for the degree of inter-item consistency. A game theoretic model is developed that captures repeated interactions between parents and children. The prediction of the model that disincentive effects for child substance use can be ranked from greatest to least as parenting style moves from Authoritative to Authoritarian to Permissive to Disengaged is tested using the NLSY-79 Mother-Child data set. Specifically, a probit model is estimated separately for smoking and alcohol use taking parenting style as exogenous. The results of the dissertation show that parenting style is significant and that including these variables leads to a more complete model of behaviour. Disengaged parents are most likely to have children smoking and consuming alcohol followed by Authoritarian and Authoritative and Permissive Parents. The dissertation also establishes the importance of family background factors, particularly parental substance use, in determining child substance use. Thus the expected utility theory in the standard economic model can be supplemented with psychological variables in order to provide an empirical model of behavior. This study examines the role of parenting styles using an economic model and a new methodology to enable an understanding of the psychosocial processes of adolescence and predict substance use by young children. |
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Malik, Garima. "The Role of Parenting Style in Child Substance Use." Working Paper, Department of Economics, The Ohio State University, December 18, 2002. |