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Research Finds Link Between Mother's Beliefs and Child's Future Alcohol Use
The team led by Stephanie Madon, an ISU associate professor of psychology found that mother's beliefs regarding her child's likelihood of using alcohol might have a strong impact on the kids' alcohol use in future.
They analysed data obtained from a series of interviews with nearly 800 Iowa mothers and their children over three to five years.
"When mothers overestimated their teens' future use of alcohol, the teens developed the self-view that they were likely to drink alcohol in the future, which ultimately led them to drink more," said Madon, also the study's lead author.
The team's previous research had found a link between a mother's belief about her child's likelihood of using alcohol and her child's actual use in junior high school and high school.
"We previously found that mothers' beliefs about their teen's future use of alcohol were about 50 percent correct and 50 percent incorrect, and that the incorrect portion of mothers' beliefs created a self-fulfilling prophecy -- teens behaved like their mothers had incorrectly expected them to," Madon said.
She said that the current study focuses on 'How is that happening? What are the mechanisms that are creating that?'
"We derived our hypothesis from three large, well-known theories in the social/psychological literature -- self-verification theory, research on conformity and social learning theory as it pertains to modelling processes," she said.
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