Memories of Parental Rearing in Alcohol and Drug Addicts: A Comparative Study

Abstract

Memories of parental rearing were investigated in 48 polydrug addicts and 91 alcohol addicts with the EMBU, an instrument for assessing parental rearing styles. Drug addicts remember their fathers and mothers as more rejecting and overprotecting and their mothers as more favoring than do alcoholics. When the age and the sex of addicts are taken into account, the kind of addiction and the sex of the addicts can explain a part of the variance of the overprotection dimension by fathers and mothers. The age of the addicts can explain a part of the variance of the rejection di mension by fathers and mothers. Finally, the variance in the favoring dimension by mothers can be explained by the kind of addiction.

Key Words:

• Parental rearing
• alcoholics
• drug addicts
• EMBU