College drinking, psychopathy, and the moderating role of parenting styles

• Main Authors: Ibarra, Anika Bianca C., Leviste, Kassandra Isabella L., Poblete, Patricia Isabel S., Ramos, Jaznin Kate L.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2019
• Subjects: Drinking behavior > Philippines; College students > Philippines; De La Salle University; Parenting > Philippines; Authoritarianism (Personality trait) > Philippines
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_bachelors/6723
• Institution: De La Salle University

Seeing that college drinking has become prevalent among students, the researchers wanted to further investigate other possible variables that causes the phenomena. With the use of a cross-sectional quantitative research design, the researchers studies whether the amount of alcohol intake a person who already possesses psychopathic traits (meanness, boldness, and disinhibition), will change depending on whether or not they were exposed to an authoritarian environment growing up. This study looks into the moderating role of parenting style to the relationship between the independent variable (psychopathic traits) and the dependent variable (college drinking). Participants of the research were De La Salle University college students, who engage in college drinking. The researchers yielded a significant interaction effect among all three variables. Results show that individuals who scored high on the Parental Authority Test, which determines whether or they were raised in an authoritarian environment, were observed to partake in college drinking more often than those who scored lower on the test. The results of the research proved that the authoritatian parenting style intensifies the effect of psychopathic traits towrads the partaking of an individual in college drinking. This further shows significance in the role of the parents in the development of their children and how the environment of the child during their developmental years could truly affect their decision making in the future.