Examination of perceived father attitudes and fathers' gambling behavior of adolescents with and without substance addiction

The purpose of this current study is to examine the perceived father attitudes of adolescents with and without substance addiction and their fathers' gambling behaviors. The sample of the study consists of male adolescents ages ranged between 13 and 18, receiving and not receiving inpatient treatment in a Psychiatry Clinic with their fathers in Gaziantep. The Questionnaires Adolescent and Father Personal Information Form, EMBU/Father Sub-Dimension and SOGS were applied. The results showed that adolescents whose fathers gambled were more likely to receive emotional and physical punishment from their fathers than those who did not. While there was a significant negative relationship between fathers' gambling levels and adolescents' perceived emotional warmth and overprotection/interventionism; a significant positive relationship was found between emotional punishment and physical punishment. The level of gambling of the fathers of adolescents with substance addiction is significantly higher than the fathers of adolescents without substance addiction.