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01-02-2013 | Original Article

Emerging Adults’ Stress and Health: The Role of Parent Behaviors and Cognitions

Auteurs: Reesa Donnelly, Kimberly Renk, Cliff McKinney

Gepubliceerd in: Child Psychiatry & Human Development | Uitgave 1/2013

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Abstract

Although parent behaviors and cognitions are important for stress/health outcomes throughout development, little research examines whether cognitions mediate the relationship between parent behaviors and stress/health outcomes. As a result, the current study examined the reports of 160 emerging adults regarding their mothers’ and fathers’ behaviors (via the Parental Bonding Instrument and Alabama Parenting Questionnaire), their cognitions (via the Stress Appraisal Measure, Negative Mood Regulation Scale, Life Orientation Test-Revised, General Self-Efficacy Scale, and Ruminative Response Scale-Abbreviated), and their stress/health outcomes (via the Perceived Stress Scale and Short-Form Health Survey). Results of this study suggested that emerging adults’ cognitions partially mediated the relationship between their mothers’ behaviors and their stress/health outcomes and fully mediated the relationship between their fathers’ behaviors and their stress/health outcomes. Future research should examine parent behaviors as important distal variables in emerging adults’ stress/health outcomes but should examine cognitions as more salient, immediate predictors of their stress/health outcomes.
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Metagegevens
Titel
Emerging Adults’ Stress and Health: The Role of Parent Behaviors and Cognitions
Auteurs
Reesa Donnelly
Kimberly Renk
Cliff McKinney
Publicatiedatum
01-02-2013
Uitgeverij
Springer US
Gepubliceerd in
Child Psychiatry & Human Development / Uitgave 1/2013
Print ISSN: 0009-398X
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-3327
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10578-012-0309-y

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