The Role of Parent-Child Relationship in the Development of Alcoholism

The objective of the present study was to investigate the relationship between the parent-child relationship and alcoholism. The sample comprised of 180 alcoholics sample. For this 180 subjects (alcoholics) were taken from urban and rural areas (90 each) belonging to upper, middle and lower class (60 each) from two districts of Himachal Pradesh (Kinnaur and Shimla). Results of the study revealed that the parent-child relationship explained a significant amount of variance in alcoholism. The main findings point out to the following facts: In urban sample, rejecting fathers has significantly contributed 4% (r=.287**, p