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Mental Health Problems in Adolescent Childrenof Alcohol Dependent Parents: Epidemiologic Researchwith a Nationally Representative Sample…………………..……..83Isidore S. ObotJames C. AnthonyIn this study, with an epidemiologic sample of national scope, we seek confirmatory evidenceabout specific mental health problems of adolescent children living with actively alcoholdependent parents (AD+ children) as compared to control children whose parents are notalcohol dependent (AD— children). Treatment sample research leads us to expect the mostprominent AD+/AD— differences with respect to externalizing symptoms. Data for thisstudy were from the 1995 and 1996 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse (NHSDA),with the sample and field research staff 'blinded' to the study's hypothesis. Within theNHSDA national sample, a total of 1,729 parent-child pairs living in the same householdwere assessed. Youths were asked to complete an adapted version of Achenbach' s YouthSelf-Report. Independently, the parent was asked about his or her alcohol problems usingan adapted version of the Diagnostic Interview Schedule. Analysis of variance (ANOVA)showed the AD+ children (n = 79) to have higher delinquency (p < .001) and aggressivebehavior scores (p < .05) as compared to AD— children (n = ¡,650). Multivariateanalysis of covariance (MANCOVA), with five socio-demographic characteristics ascovariates, confirmed the presence of independent delinquency excesses (but notindependent aggressive behavior excesses) among children living with a parent withalcohol problems (F = 9.23, df =l, 1659, p < .01). The evidence of this study favors thehypothesis that adolescent children living with an alcohol dependent parent have moredelinquency problems than other adolescents. We did not find similar patterns ofassociation for the internalizing symptoms, nor for aggression, once delinquency was heldconstant.KEYWORDS. Children of alcoholics, adolescents, epidemiology, mental health,behavioral problemsADDENDUMRelationship of Substance Use and Associated Predictorsof Violence in Early, Middle, and Late Adolescence…………..…97Michelle D. WeinerMar y Ann PentzSilvana N. SkaraChaoyang LiChih-Ping ChouJames H. DwyerThis study examined relationships among selected predictors of violence, includingvictimization, low conflict management efficacy, hostile anger and drug use in 8th-,10th-, and 12th-grade adolescents. The study was a secondary analysis of datafrom a population-based, cross-sectional survey of health behaviors amongadolescents (N = 3922). For each cohort, it was hypothesized that victimizationand low conflict management efficacy would predict low hostile anger control,which would predict gateway drug use, and the subsequent development of harddrug use and violence. Overall model fit and the magnitude of specific paths wereexpected to increase across grades. Using structural equation modeling (SEM),