Family Relationships and Adolescent Psychosocial Outcomes: Converging Findings From Eastern and Western Cultures

By J. Dmitrieva, Chuansheng Chen, E. Greenberger, V. Gil-Rivas. 2004

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This study investigated the role of parent-adolescent relationships in mediating the association between family-related negative life events and adolescent depressive symptoms and problem behaviors among 1,696 eleventh graders from the United States (n = 201), China (n = 502), Korea (n = 497), and Czech Republic (n = 496). Results indicated that perceived parental involvement and parent-adolescent conflict mediated the link between family-related life events and adolescent depressed mood. The path from family-related life events to adolescent problem behaviors was mediated by perceived parental involvement, parent-adolescent conflict, and perceived parental sanctions of adolescent misconduct. With the exception of minor cross-cultural differences in the magnitude of associations among variables, this study revealed considerable similarity in the association of family factors with adolescent internalizing and externalizing symptomatology. The findings contribute to the growing literature on culture-general developmental processes.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Education, Social Psychology

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Adolescents’ Psychological Well-Being and Perceived Parental Involvement: Implications for Parental Involvement in Middle Schools (2009, methodology): “…and self-evaluation, peer relationships, and frequency of negative familial life events (Amato, 1994; Amato & Ochiltree, 1986; Buri et al., 1987; Dekovic & Meeus, 1997; Dmitrieva et al, 2004; Flouri & Buchanan, 2003; Gecas, 1971; Gibson & Jefferson, 2006; Roberts & Bengtson, 1993; Wilkinson, 2004).”
In search of the sources of psychologically controlling parenting: The role of parental separation anxiety and parental maladaptive perfectionism (2006, background): “The present findings are in line withmounting evidence demonstrating that disturbances in parental and marital functioning (such as marital conflict, parental substance use, and family-related negative life events) tend to carry over to children’s development through maladaptive parenting practices ”
Influence of Perceived Parental Rearing on Adolescent Self-Concept and Internalizing and Externalizing Problems in Japan (2010, background): “A cross-cultural study indicated both cultural similarities and differences in the patterns of associations among family relations and adolescent problem behaviors in the United States, China, Korea and Czech Republic ( Dmitrieva et al. 2004 ).”