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01-06-2012 | Empirical Research

The Role of Parenting and Mother-Adolescent Attachment in the Intergenerational Similarity of Internalizing Symptoms

Auteurs: Katrijn Brenning, Bart Soenens, Caroline Braet, Sarah Bal

Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Youth and Adolescence | Uitgave 6/2012

Abstract

Parental depression has been identified as a risk factor for children’s and adolescents’ internalizing problems. In the current study, we aimed to investigate the role of maternal parenting behaviors (i.e., responsiveness and autonomy-support) and adolescents’ representations of attachment to their mother (i.e., anxiety and avoidance) in the intergenerational similarity of internalizing symptoms. The sample was heterogeneous and consisted of referred (42%) and non-referred adolescents (N = 238, 31% female) and their mothers. Both adolescents and mothers reported on internalizing symptoms, parenting behaviors and all adolescents reported on mother–child attachment. Results showed that parenting behaviors and mother-adolescent attachment explain at least part of the intergenerational congruence of internalizing symptoms. Moreover, there were meaningful and specific associations between dimensions of parenting and dimensions of attachment. Higher responsiveness was primarily related to lower avoidance and higher autonomy-support was primarily related to lower anxiety. The current study’s results suggest that maternal depressive symptoms relate to maladaptive parenting strategies and insecure attachment representations in adolescents. Further, both attachment anxiety and avoidance seem to relate positively to adolescents’ internalizing symptoms. Targeting both parenting and attachment may form a fruitful approach to prevent and treat internalizing problems in adolescence.

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One might wonder whether the results would remain the same (a) without including mother’s report of adolescents’ depressive symptoms (CBCL) as an indicator of the latent factor for adolescents’ internalizing symptoms, or (b) when using manifest variables instead of latent factor scores. We performed analyses to examine both possibilities and found in both cases that the results remained largely similar.

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Titel: The Role of Parenting and Mother-Adolescent Attachment in the Intergenerational Similarity of Internalizing Symptoms
Auteurs: Katrijn Brenning
Bart Soenens
Caroline Braet
Sarah Bal
Publicatiedatum: 01-06-2012
Uitgeverij: Springer US
Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Youth and Adolescence / Uitgave 6/2012
Print ISSN: 0047-2891
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-6601
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-011-9740-9

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