Developmental Task Attainment in Adolescents from Families with a Recovering Alcoholic or Active Alcoholic Father

• Authors: Iwona Grzegorzewska , Lidia Cierpiałkowska
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The problem under consideration is the issue of adolescent developmental tasks in families with alcohol-related problems, especially in families which contain one or more treated alcoholics. In the present work it was hypothesised that the treatment of alcoholic fathers would be one of the more important protective factors in families coping with alcoholism. The participants of the study included 91 children, aged 17-18. The research sample was comprised of three groups: 31 children of active alcoholics, 30 children of treated alcoholics, and 30 children of non-alcoholic parents. In general, the results of the study highlight the roles of temperament and parenting practices in the progress of developmental tasks. The data revealed that family characteristics were correlated to the predictors of these tasks. The groups used in the study were differed according to the factors of their developmental tasks.

Keywords

EN

children of alcoholics; alcoholic parents under treatment; high-risk development; protective factors; developmental tasks

• Publisher: Committee for Psychological Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Polish Psychological Bulletin
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 42
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 95-104

Contributors

author

Iwona Grzegorzewska

author

Lidia Cierpiałkowska

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10059-011-0013-y