Adolescents' Health Habits, Coping Styles and Self-Concept Are Predicted by Exposure to Interparental Conflict

Michael, Kerry C.; Torres, Aurora; Seemann, Eric

doi:10.1300/j087v48n01_09

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“…The “attenuation hypothesis” (Susman, 2006) has been proposed to explain a link between adverse and stressful early environments and subsequent antisocial and aggressive behavior. Although aggressive family conflict may lead to hypervigilance and sensitized patterns of stress responding in young children, adolescents in high-conflict family environments may be more likely to show avoidant, withdrawn, and disengaged coping strategies (Brown, Oudekerk, Szwedo, & Allen, 2013; Michael, Torres, & Seemann, 2007; Pine et al, 2005). These behaviors may be mirrored by physiological responses to stress: Early, chronic stressful experience appears to downregulate the stress system of some children, an adaptive strategy that protects them from continued adrenocortical overload (Gunnar & Donzella, 2002; Susman, 2006).…”

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Neural mediators of the intergenerational transmission of family aggression

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Youth exposed to family aggression may become more aggressive themselves, but the mechanisms of intergenerational transmission are understudied. In a longitudinal study, we found that adolescents’ reduced neural activation when rating their parents’ emotions, assessed via magnetic resonance imaging, mediated the association between parents’ past aggression and adolescents’ subsequent aggressive behavior toward parents. A subsample of 21 youth, drawn from the larger study, underwent magnetic resonance imaging scanning proximate to the second of two assessments of the family environment. At Time 1 (when youth were on average 15.51 years old) we measured parents’ aggressive marital and parent–child conflict behaviors, and at Time 2 (≈2 years later), we measured youth aggression directed toward parents. Youth from more aggressive families showed relatively less activation to parent stimuli in brain areas associated with salience and socioemotional processing, including the insula and limbic structures. Activation patterns in these same areas were also associated with youths’ subsequent parent-directed aggression. The association between parents’ aggression and youths’ subsequent parent-directed aggression was statistically mediated by signal change coefficients in the insula, right amygdala, thalamus, and putamen. These signal change coefficients were also positively associated with scores on a mentalizing measure. Hypoarousal of the emotional brain to family stimuli may support the intergenerational transmission of family aggression.

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Section: Attenuation As a Marker Of Neurodevelopmental Riskmentioning

confidence: 99%

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“…Exposure to high levels of childhood family (Michael, Torres, & Seemann, 2007) and interparental conflict (Oudekerk et al, 2013;Rodrigues & Kitzmann, 2007) has been shown to predict reliance on disengagement methods to cope with stressors later in life and outside of the family context. Reliance on disengagement coping strategies might be particularly maladaptive during the developmental transition to young adulthood.…”

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Family Conflict in Childhood and Adolescence and Depressive Symptoms in Emerging Adulthood: Mediation by Disengagement Coping

Roubinov

Luecken

2013

Journal of Divorce & Remarriage

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“…Låftman and Östberg (2006) found that the quality of social relationships with parents and peers as perceived by a cross-sectional Swedish sample of 10-to 18-year-olds (n = 5 137) is connected with their health complaints. Michael, Torres, and Seemann (2007) confirmed that a high family conflict had a negative impact on health habits, resulting in e.g., less sleep and lowered well-being in late adolescents. Higher anxiety, depressive and somatic symptoms were reported by early adolescents from families with a higher conflict between parents (Mechanic & Hansell, 1989).…”

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Subjective Health Complaints in Fifteen-Year-Old Czech Adolescents: The Role of Self-Esteem, Interparental Conflict, and Gender

Daňsová

Bouša²,

Lacinová³

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This cross-sectional study aims to 1) investigate the factor structure and measurement invariance of subjective health complaints inventory in terms of gender, 2) examine the role of selfesteem, interparental conflict and gender in Czech adolescents' subjective health complaints, and 3) examine a possible moderating effect of gender in these relationships. Czech adolescents (N = 1602, 51% girls) from an epidemiological part of the European Longitudinal Study of Pregnancy and Childhood (ELSPAC) completed questionnaires at home and a psychological sub-sample of ELSPAC (n = 343, 46% girls) completed questionnaires during individual psychological examinations in the years 2006 and 2007. The subjective health complaints inventory used in this study is a unidimensional and scalar invariant for sex. Girls reported more subjective health symptoms than boys. Self-esteem may play a protective role for the adolescents' subjective health symptoms, especially in boys, whereas self-blame and threat in an interparental conflict may serve as a risk factor similarly for both sexes.

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Adolescents' Health Habits, Coping Styles and Self-Concept Are Predicted by Exposure to Interparental Conflict

Cited by 11 publications

References 53 publications

Neural mediators of the intergenerational transmission of family aggression

Neural mediators of the intergenerational transmission of family aggression

Family Conflict in Childhood and Adolescence and Depressive Symptoms in Emerging Adulthood: Mediation by Disengagement Coping

Subjective Health Complaints in Fifteen-Year-Old Czech Adolescents: The Role of Self-Esteem, Interparental Conflict, and Gender

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