ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Public Health
Sec. Public Mental Health
Volume 13 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1662188
This article is part of the Research TopicPublic Health Strategies to Improve Mental Health in the Education Sector: Perspectives and ApplicationsView all 25 articles
The Interrelation of Parental Alcohol Use, Parental Practices, and Binge Drinking Among Secondary and High School Students: Analysis of a National Survey
Provisionally accepted
Raquel Mondragón Gómez1
Jorge Villatoro Velázquez2*María Elena Medina Mora3,4Emilia Lucio y Gómez Maqueo1- 1Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico Facultad de Psicologia, Mexico City, Mexico
- 2Subdirección de Investigaciones Clínicas, Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatria Ramon de la Fuente Muniz, Mexico City, Mexico
- 3Centro de Investigación en Salud Mental Global, Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatria Ramon de la Fuente Muniz, Mexico City, Mexico
- 4Global Studies Seminar, School of Medicine, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico
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Introduction: Understanding the role of parenting practices and their potential interaction effect between parental and adolescent alcohol use is critically important for informing and developing interventions aimed at preventing binge drinking among adolescents. Objective: To evaluate the effect of parental problematic alcohol consumption and parenting practices on alcohol use among students, using a nationally representative sample of adolescents in Mexico. Methodology: A secondary analysis was conducted using the National Survey on Drug Use among Students, based on data from 114,364 middle and high school students. An analysis of prevalence ratios (PR) was conducted using generalized linear models (GLM) with log-link and binomial distribution. From this global analysis, the nlcom command was used to compare parenting practices within each category of parental problematic alcohol use. Results: The results indicated a higher risk of binge drinking among students who reported a father with problematic alcohol use and perceived negative supervision or lack of parental involvement (PR = 1.63 [95% CI: 1.43–1.86]; PR = 1.36 [1.19–1.56], respectively); among those who reported problematic use in both parents and perceived negative supervision (PR = 1.32 [95% CI: 1.06–1.64]); similarly, among those whose parents did not report problematic use, but perceived negative supervision or negligent parenting practices (PR = 1.50 [95% CI: 1.41–1.59]; PR = 1.13 [95% CI: 1.04–1.24], respectively), and when they perceived no parental involvement or encouragement (PR = 1.44 [95% CI: 1.35–1.53]; PR = 1.12 [95% CI: 1.04–1.24], respectively). Discussion: The findings highlight the importance of developing and strengthening prevention efforts that promote positive parenting practices and enhance parents' understanding of how their alcohol use affects their children's behavior.
Keywords: Parental problem drinking, Adolescent binge drinking, Probabilistic survey, parental practices, Intergenerational Transmission of Alcohol Use
Received: 08 Jul 2025; Accepted: 18 Sep 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Mondragón Gómez, Villatoro Velázquez, Medina Mora and Gómez Maqueo. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Jorge Villatoro Velázquez, javvrosh@outlook.com
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