Results of the father-report model were largely replicated in analyses of mother-reported child externalizing symptoms. Specifically, for the mother-report model, distal effects of both mothers’ and fathers’ lifetime alcoholism diagnoses predicted greater mother-reported child externalizing symptoms. However, an interaction between the distal effect of father’s alcoholism diagnosis and study indicated that this effect was only found in AFDP (β=0.20, t=2.29, p=0.02) and not in MLS (β= −0.06, t=−0.76, p=0.45). Proximal effects of father’s alcohol-related symptoms increased risk for mother-reported child externalizing symptoms again, and a marginally significant proximal effect of mother’s alcohol-related symptoms was also found. A time-varying effect for father’s (both not mother’s) alcohol-related symptoms was significantly associated with an increased risk for mother-reported child externalizing symptoms. Once again, tests of gender differences in the impact of time-varying effects of parent alcohol-related symptoms on mother-reported child externalizing symptoms were non-significant (see Model 2, Table 2).
