Faculty Sponsor: Professor Marayam Gooyabadi
Live Poster Session: https://wesleyan.zoom.us/j/93349723681
Imani Ochieng
Imani is a sophomore (2025) at Wesleyan from Pottstown, Pennsylvania who intends to major in Neuroscience and minor in Chemistry. At Wesleyan, she is a member of the Varsity Field Hockey Team and is involved in the Student Athletes of Color Leadership Council (SACLC) and the Black Undergraduates Medical Association (BUMA). After she graduates, she hopes to attend medical school.
Abstract: The presence of alcoholism is an issue which is observed at high rates in the United States among people of all ages. Increasing rates of alcoholism are associated increased risks of developed health problems and potential death as well as the presence of alcoholism increasing the effects enacted on observing generations. Multiple studies have been conducted to investigate the relationship of alcoholism on families, particularly looking at the influences of parental alcoholism on increasing rates of generational alcoholism. Little research has been conducted to determine the effects on children of different genders in response to alcoholism exhibited by individual parents. The present study involves the determination of the different effects of separated maternal and paternal alcoholism on male children and female children in the United States. A significant negative association with whether the father of the individual was an alcoholic influencing the child’s future abuse of alcohol was found for both sexes. Additionally, no significant association was found amongst either gender as they endured the experience of an alcoholic mother.
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