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Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology 7/2014

01-10-2014

Parental Depressive Symptoms and Adolescent Adjustment: A Prospective Test of an Explanatory Model for the Role of Marital Conflict

Auteurs: E. Mark Cummings, Rebecca Y. M. Cheung, Kalsea Koss, Patrick T. Davies

Gepubliceerd in: Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology | Uitgave 7/2014

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Abstract

Despite calls for process-oriented models for child maladjustment due to heightened marital conflict in the context of parental depressive symptoms, few longitudinal tests of the mechanisms underlying these relations have been conducted. Addressing this gap, the present study examined multiple factors longitudinally that link parental depressive symptoms to adolescent adjustment problems, building on a conceptual model informed by emotional security theory (EST). Participants were from 320 families (158 boys, 162 girls), including mothers and fathers, who took part when their children were in kindergarten (T1), second (T2), seventh (T3), eighth (T4) and ninth (T5) grades. Parental depressive symptoms (T1) were related to changes in adolescents’ externalizing and internalizing symptoms (T5), as mediated by parents’ negative emotional expressiveness (T2), marital conflict (T3), and emotional insecurity (T4). Evidence was thus advanced for emotional insecurity as an explanatory process in the context of parental depressive symptoms.
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Further analyses were conducted to examine a model that excluded variables without significant contributions to the pathways of interest. A reduced model with T1 and T2 positive emotional expressiveness and T1 emotional insecurity removed from analyses resulted in similar findings, in which significant pathways remained significant and fit indices were comparable (reduced model: χ 2(224) = 347.01, p < 0.001, CFI = 0.94, RMSEA = 0.04, SRMR = 0.06). The full model was retained for inclusion of these theory-driven constructs.
 
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Metagegevens
Titel
Parental Depressive Symptoms and Adolescent Adjustment: A Prospective Test of an Explanatory Model for the Role of Marital Conflict
Auteurs
E. Mark Cummings
Rebecca Y. M. Cheung
Kalsea Koss
Patrick T. Davies
Publicatiedatum
01-10-2014
Uitgeverij
Springer US
Gepubliceerd in
Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology / Uitgave 7/2014
Print ISSN: 2730-7166
Elektronisch ISSN: 2730-7174
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10802-014-9860-2

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