YOUNG-WOMEN AND ALCOHOL - PSYCHOSOCIAL FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH THEIR OWN DRINKING, THEIR FATHERS DRINKING, AND BOTH

Psychosocial factors associated with young women's own alcohol consump tion, and that of their fathers, were assessed in a sample of 231 fema les (mean age: 18.0 years) from the Hunter Region, NSW, Australia. Con sistent with prior research, we found some evidence of poorer adjustme nt in girls who drank heavily and among daughters of high drinkers. In addition, we found that the ''psychosocial profiles'' associated with girls' and fathers' drinking were quite different, which argues again st a simple additive model which might predict poorer adjustment in hi gh drinking daughters of high drinking men. One interesting finding wa s that discordance between girls' and fathers' drinking patterns was i ndependently related to some psychosocial problems.