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February 18th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda FRIDAY, Feb. 17 (HealthDay News) — By imposing strict rules
about alcohol, parents can reduce their kids’ impulses to drink, according
to a new study.
Tight parental control over drinking helps inhibit what’s called
“approach tendencies” in teens, the researchers explained in the study
published online and in the May print issue of the journal Alcoholism:
Clinical Experimental Research.
Approach tendencies refer to a person’s inclination to approach or
avoid a stimulus.
“With repeated alcohol use, cues that are previously associated with
alcohol use — such as the sight of a beer bottle — become increasingly
important,” study corresponding author Sara Pieters, a researcher at
Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands, said in a journal news
release. “This might be due to alcohol-induced changes in the brain’s
reward system and the formation of memory associations.”
She and her colleagues looked at the behavior of 238 adolescents (120
females, 118 males) aged 12 to 16 and the alcohol-related rules imposed on
them by their parents.
“Results indicated that in young adolescents, approach tendencies were
related to alcohol,” Pieters said. “However, we found that if parents set
strict rules regarding their offspring’s alcohol use, adolescents could
inhibit these approach tendencies, particularly males. Conversely,
permissive parenting seems to exacerbate the link between approach
tendencies and alcohol use for adolescent males.”
Previous research has already shown that stricter parental rules are
associated with less alcohol use by children. But this is the first study
to investigate how parental rules affect kids’ impulsive processes.
Adolescents may internalize parental rules in such a way that their
approach tendencies can be more successfully inhibited, Pieters suggested.
“In summary, the link between parental rule-setting and adolescent
alcohol use is well-established, with more rules being associated with
less alcohol use. This study extends previous research on this topic by
indicating that parental rules might also be related to the degree to
which approach tendencies are linked to changes in alcohol use, with
approach tendencies being predictive of increases in alcohol use for
adolescents with permissive parents,” Pieters said in the news
release.
“This suggests that parental rule-setting is particularly relevant for
adolescents who are already at increased risk to develop alcohol-related
problems for reasons such as genetic factors,” she added.
More information
The U.S. National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism has more
about parenting to prevent childhood alcohol use.
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