Promoting Positive Youth Development: A Psychosocial Intervention Evaluation

Rinaldi, Roberto L.; Farr, Angela

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“…Future studies should examine mechanisms that may be involved in this process. Additionally, campaigns aimed at training parents as psychosocial protective agents against adolescent aggressiveness, such as, for example media campaigns or family programs, should be informative (Cornelius, Earnshaw, Menino, Bogart, & Levy, 2017;Rinaldi & Farr, 2018). Specifically, interventions with aggressive adolescents and their parents should be focused on fostering a warmth relationship within the family, based on dialogue and affection, helping the aggressive adolescents to improve their family perceptions, as valued and appreciated members in home.…”

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Parenting Styles and Aggressive Adolescents: Relationships with Self-esteem and Personal Maladjustment

Perez-Gramaje

Garcia

Reyes

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The European Journal of Psychology Applied to Legal Context

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A B S T R A C TCurrent emergent studies are seriously questioning if parental strictness contributes to adolescent adjustment. This study examined whether the relationship between authoritative (warmth and strictness), authoritarian (strictness without warmth), indulgent (warmth without strictness), and neglectful (neither warmth nor strictness) parenting styles shows equal or different pattern of adjustment and maladjustment for aggressive and non-aggressive adolescents. The sample consisted of 969 Spanish adolescents, 554 females (57.2%) and 415 males, ranging from 12 to 17 years old. Families were classified into one of four typologies by their scores on warmth and strictness, and the adolescents were grouped by their aggressiveness (low vs. high). Adolescent adjustment was captured with three self-esteem indicators (emotional, physical, and family) and personal maladjustment with five indicators (negative self-esteem, negative self-adequacy, emotional irresponsiveness, emotional instability, and negative worldview). It was tested main and interaction effects between parenting and aggressiveness considering also sex and age factors. Findings showed that aggressive adolescents always had the worst socialization outcomes (i.e., the lowest self-esteem and the highest personal maladjustment). Aggressive and non-aggressive adolescents have a common pattern: both, indulgent and authoritative parenting styles were always associated with better outcomes than either authoritarian or neglectful parenting, but indulgent parenting style was associated with the best outcomes across all the criteria. In contrast with previous evidence about the idea that parental strictness and imposition might be beneficial to raise aggressive adolescents, present findings highlight the positive impact of parental warmth even with aggressive adolescents. Implications for family interventions were considered. Los estilos parentales y los adolescentes agresivos: su relación con la autoestima y el desajuste personal R E S U M E NInvestigaciones emergentes cuestionan que la severidad parental contribuya al ajuste del adolescente. Este estudio examina si la relación entre los estilos parentales autorizativo (afecto y severidad), autoritario (severidad sin afecto), indulgente (afecto sin severidad) y negligente (ni afecto ni severidad) presenta patrones de ajuste y desajuste iguales o diferentes en adolescentes agresivos y no agresivos. Participaron 969 adolescentes españoles, 554 mujeres (57.2%) y 415 varones, de 12 a 17 años. Las familias se clasificaron en un estilo parental según sus puntuaciones en afecto y severidad y los adolescentes se agruparon por agresividad (baja vs. alta). Se captó el ajuste mediante tres indicadores de autoestima (emocional, física y familiar) y el desajuste personal con cinco indicadores (autoestima negativa, autoeficacia negativa, falta de respuesta emocional, inestabilidad emocional y visión negativa del mundo). Se probaron efectos principales y de interacción para estilos parentales y agresividad, considerando ...

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Parenting Styles and Aggressive Adolescents: Relationships with Self-esteem and Personal Maladjustment

Perez-Gramaje

Garcia

Reyes

et al. 2019

The European Journal of Psychology Applied to Legal Context

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“…These authors concluded that the causal paths for the specific outcomes were moderated by gender and ethnicity via their effects on mediators (i.e., identity processes) rather than through direct effects on outcomes. In the process of self‐construction and self‐discovery during emerging adulthood, PYD interventions should promote equal opportunities for both genders to thrive by progressive cascading effects on behavior problems that operate through effects on positive outcomes (Eichas, Kurtines, Rinaldi & Farr, ).…”

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Positive youth development, thriving and social engagement: An analysis of gender differences in Spanish youth

Gómez-Baya

Reis

Matos

2019

Scandinavian J Psychology

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The framework of Positive Youth Development (PYD) arose from a strength‐based conception of the transition to adulthood. Although previous literature has provided evidence for some PYD correlates, little is known about gender differences in PYD and its outcomes in thriving and social engagement, which could improve interventions” effectiveness. Thus, this study aimed to examine gender differences in PYD dimensions (i.e., competence, confidence, connection, caring, and character), individual thriving (i.e., psychological adjustment, academic adjustment, and healthy lifestyles) and social engagement, and to examine the associations between them. Data from the ‘PYD in a Cross‐National Perspective Project” in Spain were collected by administering a paper‐based self‐report to students from high school and university. Results showed greater scores in connection, caring, and character in women, as well as greater social engagement and academic adjustment. Men presented higher competence and confidence, more frequent physical activity and better psychological adjustment. In addition, more PYD was related to greater social engagement, better psychological and academic adjustment, and healthier lifestyles. Some practical implications for program design may be derived, which underscore the need to promote the five PYD dimensions equally in female and male youths in order to improve their individual thriving and social engagement.

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“…MBT is meant to be a therapeutic “stance” rather than a strictly manualized treatment (Bateman & Fonagy, 2012). Due to this flexibility, it may be possible to incorporate RF‐promoting strategies from MBT into existing interventions for building healthy identity during adolescence, such as the Miami Youth Development Project (Kurtines et al, 2008) and the Changing Lives Program (Eichas, Kurtines, Rinaldi, & Farr, 2018), among others (see Ferrer‐Wreder, Montgomery, Lorente, & Habibi, 2014). Further, given similarities between RF and social‐cognitive constructs such as metacognition and theory of mind, promoting these abilities in the context of existing identity interventions may also be beneficial.…”

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Childhood maltreatment and identity diffusion among inpatient adolescents: The role of reflective function

Penner

Gambin

Sharp

2019

Journal of Adolescence

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Introduction: Identity integration, as opposed to identity diffusion, has been associated with greater self-esteem, meaning in life, and functioning. Trauma may have negative effects on identity; however, few studies have examined trauma and identity among adolescents, particularly those with psychiatric disorders. Moreover, factors that may promote healthy identity in adolescents who have experienced trauma have not been identified. This study aimed to test associations between childhood maltreatment and identity diffusion among adolescents with psychiatric disorders, and evaluated reflective function (RF) as a mediator of these associations. Methods: 107 adolescents (M age = 15.36, 75.7% female) who were inpatient at a psychiatric hospital in the United States completed self-report measures of childhood maltreatment (physical, sexual, and emotional abuse; physical and emotional neglect; total maltreatment), identity diffusion, and RF. Path analysis was used to test two models of the relations between childhood maltreatment, RF, and identity diffusion. Results: Total maltreatment and all forms of maltreatment except physical abuse were significantly associated with identity diffusion at the bivariate level. In path analysis (Model 1), emotional and physical neglect were directly associated with identity diffusion, and RF mediated the association between emotional abuse and identity diffusion. In Model 2, RF partially mediated the association between overall level of maltreatment and identity diffusion. Conclusions: Emotional abuse, emotional neglect, physical neglect, and total combined maltreatment exposure may be risk factors for adolescent identity diffusion. Targeting RF may help to build healthy identity among adolescents with symptoms of psychiatric disorders who have experienced maltreatment, particularly emotional abuse.

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Promoting Positive Youth Development: A Psychosocial Intervention Evaluation

Cited by 15 publications

References 69 publications

Parenting Styles and Aggressive Adolescents: Relationships with Self-esteem and Personal Maladjustment

Parenting Styles and Aggressive Adolescents: Relationships with Self-esteem and Personal Maladjustment

Positive youth development, thriving and social engagement: An analysis of gender differences in Spanish youth

Childhood maltreatment and identity diffusion among inpatient adolescents: The role of reflective function

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