A Gender-Moderated Model of Family Relationships and Adolescent Adjustment

The objective of this study was to explain why adolescent girls with conduct problems (CP) are more at risk than boys to develop emotional distress (ED) in a sample composed of Israeli-born and immigrant youth from Ethiopia and the former Soviet Union (n = 305, ages 14-18). We tested a structural eq...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Journal of clinical child and adolescent psychology 2007-07, Vol.36 (3), p.430-441
Hauptverfasser:	Elizur, Yoel, Spivak, Amos, Ofran, Shlomit, Jacobs, Shira
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Adaptation, Psychological Adjustment Adjustment (to Environment) Adolescent Adolescents Affective Symptoms - diagnosis Affective Symptoms - psychology Behavior Problems Child psychology Conduct Disorder - diagnosis Conduct Disorder - psychology Conduct disordered adolescent girls Conflict (Psychology) Emigration and Immigration Emotional distress Emotional Problems Emotions Ethiopia Ethiopia - ethnology Families & family life Family functioning Family Relations Female Females Foreign Countries Gender Differences Gender Identity Humans Immigrants Israel Juvenile Delinquency - psychology Male Noncitizens Object Attachment Parent Child Relationship Parent-Adolescent relationships Parent-Child Relations Parents & parenting Personality Assessment Risk Risk Factors Substance-Related Disorders - diagnosis Substance-Related Disorders - psychology Teenagers USSR USSR - ethnology
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Zusammenfassung:	The objective of this study was to explain why adolescent girls with conduct problems (CP) are more at risk than boys to develop emotional distress (ED) in a sample composed of Israeli-born and immigrant youth from Ethiopia and the former Soviet Union (n = 305, ages 14-18). We tested a structural equation model and found a very good fit to the data for both immigrant and nonimmigrant groups. The hypothesized effects of gender, CP, and parent-child relationships on ED were significant, whereas the effect of family discord was mediated by parent-child relationships. Subsequently, we used multiple-group analyses to test the two interaction hypotheses. We found significantly higher associations between CP and family discord and between ED and negative parent-child relationships in girls compared to boys.
ISSN:	1537-4416 1537-4424
DOI:	10.1080/15374410701448489