Parent-Early Adolescent Relationship Quality and Problem Behavior in Hungary, the Netherlands, India, and Iceland
Higher parent-child relationship quality has been associated with less internalizing and externalizing problem behavior. However, it remained less clear whether these associations are universal or depend on the country under investigation. Furthermore, fathers are still understudied, even though the...
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ftunivutrecht:oai:dspace.library.uu.nl:1874/408264 2023-12-03T10:24:44+01:00 Parent-Early Adolescent Relationship Quality and Problem Behavior in Hungary, the Netherlands, India, and Iceland Hillekens, Jessie Buist, K.L. Horváth, Lili O. Koper, N. Ólafsdóttir, Jóna Karkdijk, Esther Balázs, Judit Adolescent development: Characteristics and determinants Development and Treatment of Psychosocial Problems Leerstoel Dekovic Leerstoel Branje 2020-12 application/pdf https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/408264 en eng 0036-5564 https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/408264 info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess Cross-cultural research parent-child relationship problem behavior warmth conflict Article 2020 ftunivutrecht 2023-11-08T23:18:44Z Higher parent-child relationship quality has been associated with less internalizing and externalizing problem behavior. However, it remained less clear whether these associations are universal or depend on the country under investigation. Furthermore, fathers are still understudied, even though there is increasing evidence of their important role in early adolescent development. Our study compared the association of mother-child as well as father-child relationship quality with early adolescents’ problem behavior in four culturally different countries, namely Hungary (N = 293; Mage = 11.22; 53% boys), the Netherlands (N = 242; Mage = 11.20; 48% boys), India (N = 230; Mage = 10.68; 61% boys), and Iceland (N = 261; Mage = 10.90; 53% boys). Early adolescents filled out questionnaires in their classroom, assessing warmth and conflict with fathers and mothers and internalizing and externalizing problem behavior. Stepwise multi-group path analysis demonstrated no cross-cultural differences in associations between quality of the parent-child relationship and problem behavior. We did not find any effects of maternal or paternal warmth. However, across samples conflict with mothers was associated with more internalizing and externalizing problem behavior, and conflict with fathers was associated with more externalizing problem behavior. Our findings highlight the need to target conflict with both fathers and mothers in interventions across different countries, especially when addressing externalizing problem behavior. Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland Utrecht University Repository |
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Higher parent-child relationship quality has been associated with less internalizing and externalizing problem behavior. However, it remained less clear whether these associations are universal or depend on the country under investigation. Furthermore, fathers are still understudied, even though there is increasing evidence of their important role in early adolescent development. Our study compared the association of mother-child as well as father-child relationship quality with early adolescents’ problem behavior in four culturally different countries, namely Hungary (N = 293; Mage = 11.22; 53% boys), the Netherlands (N = 242; Mage = 11.20; 48% boys), India (N = 230; Mage = 10.68; 61% boys), and Iceland (N = 261; Mage = 10.90; 53% boys). Early adolescents filled out questionnaires in their classroom, assessing warmth and conflict with fathers and mothers and internalizing and externalizing problem behavior. Stepwise multi-group path analysis demonstrated no cross-cultural differences in associations between quality of the parent-child relationship and problem behavior. We did not find any effects of maternal or paternal warmth. However, across samples conflict with mothers was associated with more internalizing and externalizing problem behavior, and conflict with fathers was associated with more externalizing problem behavior. Our findings highlight the need to target conflict with both fathers and mothers in interventions across different countries, especially when addressing externalizing problem behavior. |
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Adolescent development: Characteristics and determinants Development and Treatment of Psychosocial Problems Leerstoel Dekovic Leerstoel Branje |
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Hillekens, Jessie Buist, K.L. Horváth, Lili O. Koper, N. Ólafsdóttir, Jóna Karkdijk, Esther Balázs, Judit |
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Parent-Early Adolescent Relationship Quality and Problem Behavior in Hungary, the Netherlands, India, and Iceland |
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Parent-Early Adolescent Relationship Quality and Problem Behavior in Hungary, the Netherlands, India, and Iceland |
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