Children's experience of life stress: The role of family social support and social problem-solving skills as protective factors

Quamma, Julie Perkins; Greenberg, Mark T.

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“…The possibility that enhanced social networks and social support could influence the persistence of poly-victimization could be the basis for important intervention approaches. This finding is certainly consistent with other literature showing that social support-in forms such as friendship or nurturant family members-protects against the negative consequences of adversity and victimization (Everson, Hunter, Runyan, Edelsohn, & Coulter, 1989;Quamma & Greenberg, 1994;Wills, Vacarro, & McNamara, 1992). Future research might want to examine whether the buffering role of friendship is of a general sort, enhancing self-esteem and self-efficacy, or whether friends provide specific help, such as alliances against bullies or advice on self-protection.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 86%

Re-victimization patterns in a national longitudinal sample of children and youth

Finkelhor

Ormrod

Turner

2007

Child Abuse & Neglect

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Objective: To understand to the degree to which a broad variety of victimizations, including child maltreatment, conventional crime, peer, and sexual victimizations, persist for children from 1 year to the next. Design: A national sample of 1467 children aged 2-17 recruited through random digit dialing and assessed via telephone interviews (with caretakers and youth themselves) about a comprehensive range of victimization experiences in the previous year, and then re-assessed (72.3% of baseline sample) after a 1-year interval. Results:The risk for re-victimization in Year 2 was high for children victimized in Year 1, with risk ratios ranging from 2.2 for physical assault to 6.9 for sexual victimization. Victimization of any one type left substantial vulnerability even for different types of subsequent re-victimization (e.g., property crime victimization was associated with higher risk of sexual victimization the next year). Children with four or more types of victimization in Year 1 ("poly-victims") were at particularly high risk of persisting poly-victimization. Persisting poly-victimization was more likely for children who scored high on anger/aggression and who had recent life adversities. Desistence from poly-victimization was associated with having more good friends. Onset of poly-victimization in Year 2, in contrast to persistence from Year 1, was associated with violent or maltreating families, family problems such as alcohol abuse, imprisonment, unemployment and family disruption. Having more older siblings acted as both a risk factor and a protective factor for different groups of youth. Conclusion: Children previously victimized in 1 year are at higher risk of continued victimization, and the polyvictims are at particular risk. These findings suggest the potential merit of identifying these high-risk children and making them priority targets for prevention efforts.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 86%

Re-victimization patterns in a national longitudinal sample of children and youth

Finkelhor

Ormrod

Turner

2007

Child Abuse & Neglect

469

339

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“…However, these stressors did lead to an increase in the number of externalizing problems when the family relationships were of a middle quality or, especially when the family relationships were of a low quality. Risk and resilience research has proposed family support as one of the main factors that protect children against the adverse effects of stressors (Luthar, 2006;Masten, 2001), and a handful of studies have underscored the protective or buffering effect of responsive and supportive early family environments on child and adolescent adjustment (Jackson & Warren, 2000;Murberg & Bru, 2004;Quamma & Greenberg, 1994 & Sroufe, 2003). There is less empirical evidence regarding the protective effect of parent-adolescent relationships during middle or late adolescence, which grants a higher value to our results, as they indicate that supportive parent-adolescent relationships continue to have a protective effect on behavior adjustment, at least for Spanish adolescents.…”

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Protective effect of supportive family relationships and the influence of stressful life events on adolescent adjustment

Oliva

Jiménez

2009

Anxiety, Stress & Coping

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The purpose of this study was to determine the association between the occurrence of stressful life events and internalizing and externalizing problems, and to analyze longitudinally buffering effects of supportive family relationships. To this end, 100 Spanish adolescents were studied twice, when they were in mid-adolescence (15Á16 years) and two years later. They completed questionnaires regarding stressful life events, family relationships, and adolescent adjustment. Results showed that high quality parent-adolescent relationships protected boys and girls against the negative consequences of stressful life events on externalizing, but not internalizing, symptoms. The adolescents who enjoyed good relationships with their parents in mid-adolescence did not increase their externalizing problems in late adolescence as consequence of the occurrence of stressful events. However, these stressors did lead to an increase in the number of externalizing problems when the family relationships were of a middle or low quality. These results highlight the important role that supportive family relationships play in the behavioral adjustment of adolescents, protecting them against some negative consequences of stressful life events, and suggest the relevance of supporting parents through resources such as parent education in order to help them to improve their relationships with their adolescents.

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“…With respect to children, the main source of social support and care is from the family, thus, the quality and type of family relationships play an important role in child adjustment (Quamma & Greenberg, 1994) and therefore will be examined here. Specifi cally, it is hypothesized that stress affects parents in a variety of ways, and it is the impact on parental responsiveness and sensitivity that presumably plays a role in child adjustment (Abidin et al, 1992).…”

Section: Child Adjustment In Response To Environmental Factorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Although genetic links have been seen (e.g., McMahon and Frick), the effect that an individual's pathology has on the immediate social environment cannot be overlooked. In a similar fashion to marital relationships, it has been thought that parental mental illness may interfere with their ability to parent and provide a consistent, responsive, and supportive environment for children (Quamma & Greenberg, 1994).…”

Section: Parental Psychopathologymentioning

confidence: 99%

The environment of child maltreatment: contextual factors and the development of psychopathology

Hecht

Hansen

2001

Aggression and Violent Behavior

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Children's experience of life stress: The role of family social support and social problem-solving skills as protective factors

Cited by 62 publications

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Re-victimization patterns in a national longitudinal sample of children and youth

Re-victimization patterns in a national longitudinal sample of children and youth

Protective effect of supportive family relationships and the influence of stressful life events on adolescent adjustment

The environment of child maltreatment: contextual factors and the development of psychopathology

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