University of Notre Dame
Browse

File(s) under permanent embargo

Linking Parental Depressive Symptoms and Adolescent Problem Behaviors: Mediating Roles of Family Emotional Expressiveness, Interparental and Family Conflict, and Adolescent Emotional Insecurity

thesis
posted on 2014-04-15, 00:00 authored by Rebecca Y.M. Cheung
Guided by the family systems theory (Cox & Paley, 1997) and emotional security theory (Davies & Cummings, 1994), the present study examines multiple mediators linking parental depressive symptoms and adolescent behavior problems. Participants were 273 adolescents (133 boys, 140 girls) and their cohabiting parents. Assessments included mothers' and fathers' depressive symptoms and family emotional expressiveness when their adolescent children were in 7th grade, interparental and family conflict and emotional insecurity when the adolescents were in 8th grade, and adolescents' internalizing and externalizing problems in 9th grade. Structural equation modeling and bootstrapping were utilized to access the mediating roles of family variables and adolescents' insecurity. Two models, including the interparental conflict model and the family conflict model, were conducted separately. Findings indicated that the model fit was adequate for both models. Differential findings for each model were discussed, along with implications and contributions for understanding the relations between parental depressive symptoms and adolescents' adjustment.

History

Date Modified

2017-06-05

Defense Date

2014-04-08

Research Director(s)

E Mark Cummings

Committee Members

Lijuan (Peggy) Wang Kristin Valentino Julia Braungart-Rieker

Degree

  • Doctor of Philosophy

Degree Level

  • Doctoral Dissertation

Language

  • English

Alternate Identifier

etd-04152014-161114

Publisher

University of Notre Dame

Program Name

  • Psychology

Usage metrics

    Dissertations

    Categories

    No categories selected

    Exports

    RefWorks
    BibTeX
    Ref. manager
    Endnote
    DataCite
    NLM
    DC