Alcohol is often used for emotion-regulation purposes, yet there has been little research on how emotion-regulation drinking motives relate to parenting. The present study addresses this gap by investigating possible interactions between parent drinking and drinking motives in the prediction of parenting and child affectivity during a problem-solving interaction. Participants included 199 two-parent families with a child between the ages of 6 and 12 years. Mothers and fathers self-reported their drinking and drinking motivations, and each parent separately took part in a 5-min parent-child problem-solving discussion about a topic that the parent identified as a frequent source of conflict. These discussions were later coded for parent rejection and coercion and child positive and negative affectivity. Father enhancement motives were independently related to father harsh parenting and indirectly related to lower child positive affect and greater child negative affect. Mother drinking to regulate positive and negative emotions interacted with mother drinking in association with mother harsh parenting, father harsh parenting, and child positive and negative affect during father-child interactions. Although the pattern of these interactions differed, the combination of mother greater drinking and coping or enhancement motives tended to have higher harsh parenting, child positive affect, and child negative affect. These findings indicate that parents' emotion-regulation motives for drinking warrant greater attention from researchers to understand the impact of parent drinking on parenting and emotional development of children. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).

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父母饮酒和亲子解决问题讨论的观察：饮酒动机重要吗？

酒精通常用于情绪调节目的，但很少有人研究情绪调节饮酒动机与养育子女之间的关系。本研究通过调查父母饮酒和饮酒动机之间可能的相互作用来预测解决问题的互动期间养育和孩子的情感，从而解决了这一差距。参与者包括 199 个孩子年龄在 6 岁至 12 岁之间的双亲家庭。母亲和父亲自我报告了他们的饮酒和饮酒动机，每位家长分别参加了 5 分钟的亲子问题解决讨论，讨论的主题是家长认为经常发生冲突的话题。这些讨论后来被编码为父母的拒绝和强迫以及孩子的积极和消极情感。父亲强化动机与父亲严厉的养育方式独立相关，与较低的儿童积极情感和较高的儿童消极情感间接相关。母亲饮酒调节积极和消极情绪，母亲饮酒与母亲严厉的教养方式、父亲严厉的教养方式以及父子互动中孩子的积极和消极影响有关。尽管这些互动的模式不同，但母亲更多饮酒和应对或增强动机的结合往往会产生更高的严厉养育方式、儿童积极影响和儿童消极影响。这些发现表明，父母饮酒的情绪调节动机值得研究人员更多关注，以了解父母饮酒对养育子女和儿童情绪发展的影响。（PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2023 APA，保留所有权利）。