Parent Drug-Use Problems and Adult Intimate Relations: Associations among Community Samples of Young Adult Women and Men.

Newcomb, Michael D.; Rickards, Shannae

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ERIC Number: EJ507998

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Publication Date: 1995

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Parent Drug-Use Problems and Adult Intimate Relations: Associations among Community Samples of Young Adult Women and Men.

Newcomb, Michael D.; Rickards, Shannae

Journal of Counseling Psychology, v42 n2 p141-54 Apr 1995

Used community samples to determine the effects of childhood family support or dysfunction and the extent of parent drug-use problems on adult intimacy issues, such as sexual satisfaction. Results showed that parent drug-use predicted poor family support; family support correlated strongly with good adult intimate relations. (RJM)

Descriptors: Drug Abuse, Family Influence, Family Problems, Interpersonal Competence, Interpersonal Relationship, Intimacy, Models, Parent Child Relationship, Parent Influence, Psychological Patterns

Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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