Brief Report: Impact of Child Problem Behaviors and Parental Broad Autism Phenotype Traits on Substance Use Among Parents of Children with ASD

Using data from the Simons Simplex Collection, the present study examined the impact of child externalizing behavior and parental broad autism phenotype traits on substance use among parents of children with autism spectrum disorder ( n  = 2,388). For both fathers and mothers, child externalizing be...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of autism and developmental disorders 2014-10, Vol.44 (10), p.2621-2627
Hauptverfasser: Wade, Jordan L., Cox, Neill Broderick, Reeve, Ronald E., Hull, Michael
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:Using data from the Simons Simplex Collection, the present study examined the impact of child externalizing behavior and parental broad autism phenotype traits on substance use among parents of children with autism spectrum disorder ( n  = 2,388). For both fathers and mothers, child externalizing behaviors predicted tobacco use (OR = 1.01 and OR = 1.02, respectively), whereas rigidity increased risk of tobacco use for fathers (OR = 1.29) but not mothers. Additionally, among mothers, child externalizing behaviors increased risk of illegal substance use (OR = 1.04), whereas maternal rigidity decreased risk of alcohol use (OR = .83). Collectively, results suggest that child externalizing behaviors and parental rigidity may have differing impacts on the types of substances used by parents.
ISSN:0162-3257
1573-3432
DOI:10.1007/s10803-014-2132-8