Parent–Child Connectedness and Behavioral and Emotional Health Among Adolescents

Ackard, Diann M.; Neumark‐Sztainer, Dianne; Story, Mary; Perry, Cheryl L.

doi:10.1016/j.amepre.2005.09.013

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“…Importance of PCC and the influence of parents' behaviours Communication is most effective within the context of high levels of PCC (Ackard, Neumark-Sztainer, Story, & Perry, 2006;Bandi, Cokkinides, Westmaas, & Ward, 2008;Carter, McGee, Taylor, & Williams, 2007;Guilamo-Ramos, Bouris, Dittus, & Jaccard, 2008;Horton & Gil, 2008;Kulbok et al, 2010;Razzino et al, 2004). Adolescents are more likely to display open communication with their parents about general topics when they have high PCC (Luk, Farhat, Iannotti, & Simons-Morton, 2010).…”

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Parent–child connectedness and communication in relation to alcohol, tobacco and drug use in adolescence: An integrative review of the literature

Carver

Elliott

Kennedy

et al. 2016

Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy

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Previous reviews have highlighted parent-child connectedness and communication as important protective factors against adolescent substance use. However, these reviews focus on single substances such as alcohol. An integrative review of the literature was conducted to examine which elements of parent-child connectedness and substance-use specific communication are effective across adolescent alcohol, tobacco and drug use.

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Parent–child connectedness and communication in relation to alcohol, tobacco and drug use in adolescence: An integrative review of the literature

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Elliott

Kennedy

et al. 2016

Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy

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“…Adolescents' perception of social connectedness has been found to be an important protective factor associated with a reduction in suicidal ideation, suicidal attempts, depressive symptoms, and health-compromising behaviours such as substance misuse, violence involvement, and delinquency (Ackard, Neumark-Sztainer, Story, & Perry, 2006;Czyz, Liu, & King, 2012). Libbey, Ireland and Resnick (2002) found in their cross-sectional study negative associations between connectedness and emotional distress, with family connectedness showing the strongest negative relationship, followed by school, neighbourhood, and peer connectedness.…”

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Social Connectedness Predicts Lower Loneliness and Depressive Symptoms over Time in Adolescents

Jose

Lim²

2014

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Although research has shown that loneliness in adolescents leads to higher rates of depressive symptoms, the presumed protective factor of social connectedness has not been studied in conjunction with these two constructs. The aim of the present study was to determine if social connectedness would predict lower loneliness and depressive symptoms over time in a large sample of adolescents. A large sample of adolescents (N = 1774; 9 -16 years at Time 1) were surveyed three times, separated by one year each, with self-report measures of social connectedness, loneliness, and depressive symptoms obtained. As expected, social connectedness was negatively associated with loneliness and depressive symptoms concurrently and longitudinally. Contrary to prediction, social connectedness did not function as a buffer between loneliness and depressive symptoms over time. However, consistent with prediction, a significant longitudinal mediation pattern was obtained over the three years: the effect of social connectedness on depressive symptoms was mediated by loneliness. Social connectedness at T1 predicted a reduction in loneliness at T2, which in turn predicted a reduction in depressive symptoms at T3. Moderation analyses of this mediation pattern suggested that this obtained mediation result was obtained for males, but not females, and obtained for older adolescents, but not for younger adolescents. The results are congruent with the view that social connectedness exerts an effective protective influence on adolescents against loneliness and depressive symptoms.

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“…While there were findings to support the association between non-intact family structure and higher alcohol drinking frequency among adolescents [19], others found no relation between them [20]. Relatively few studies have further classified single-parent families into paternal or maternal families [16,21-23], and none has made statistical comparisons between them in relation to adolescent substance use, and considering the effects of parent-child communication [24,25]. Most published studies on family structure and substance use are based on Western populations where the prevalence rates of non-intact families and adolescent substance use are both high [26].…”

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Family structure, parent-child conversation time and substance use among Chinese adolescents

Thomas

Schooling

et al. 2010

BMC Public Health

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BackgroundThe family plays a vital role in shaping adolescent behaviours. The present study investigated the associations between family structure and substance use among Hong Kong Chinese adolescents.MethodsA total of 32,961 Form 1 to 5 (grade 7-12 in the US) Hong Kong students participated in the Youth Smoking Survey in 2003-4. An anonymous questionnaire was used to obtain information about family structure, daily duration of parent-child conversation, smoking, alcohol drinking and drug use. Logistic regression was used to calculate the adjusted odds ratios (OR) for each substance use by family structure.ResultsAdjusting for sex, age, type of housing, parental smoking and school, adolescents from non-intact families were significantly more likely to be current smokers (OR = 1.62), weekly drinkers (OR = 1.72) and ever drug users (OR = 1.72), with significant linear increases in ORs from maternal, paternal to no-parent families compared with intact families. Furthermore, current smoking (OR = 1.41) and weekly drinking (OR = 1.46) were significantly more common among adolescents from paternal than maternal families. After adjusting for parent-child conversation time, the ORs for non-intact families remained significant compared with intact families, but the paternal-maternal differences were no longer significant.ConclusionsNon-intact families were associated with substance use among Hong Kong Chinese adolescents. The apparently stronger associations with substance use in paternal than maternal families were probably mediated by the poorer communication with the father.

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Parent–Child Connectedness and Behavioral and Emotional Health Among Adolescents

Cited by 401 publications

References 23 publications

Parent–child connectedness and communication in relation to alcohol, tobacco and drug use in adolescence: An integrative review of the literature

Parent–child connectedness and communication in relation to alcohol, tobacco and drug use in adolescence: An integrative review of the literature

Social Connectedness Predicts Lower Loneliness and Depressive Symptoms over Time in Adolescents

Family structure, parent-child conversation time and substance use among Chinese adolescents

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