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Title: Parent Factors and Offspring Emotional and Behavioral Problems during Childhood and Adolescence
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Vaughan, Erikka B. |
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Parent Factors and Offspring Emotional and Behavioral Problems during Childhood and Adolescence Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University, 2017 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult Publisher: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) Keyword(s): Age at Birth; Behavior; Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Depression (see also CESD); Parent-Child Relationship/Closeness; Parental Influences; Siblings; Substance Use Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Internalizing and externalizing disorders often have developmental precursors during childhood and adolescence. The goal of the current dissertation, therefore, was to add to our understanding of the extent to which a range of family factors and processes are involved in the development of emotional and behavioral problems, with an emphasis on internalizing problems, across childhood and adolescence. I used two data sets: a nationally representative sample called the Children (Child and Young Adult sample) of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (CNLSY; N = 11,504; 49% female) and a community sample called the Child Development Project (CDP; N = 585; 48% female). In Projects 1 and 2, I found support in the CNLSY for a causal model, minimally explained by a range of putative mediators, between maternal age at childbearing (MAC) and child and adolescent emotional and behavioral problems using family-based designs (e.g., sibling comparisons). In Project 3, I found in the CNLSY that parental emotional support predicted child internalizing and the reverse, but that the associations were quite small and not likely clinically meaningful. In Project 4, I found in the CDP that the extent to which adolescents' internalizing predicts their parents' psychological control and the reverse depended on parent gender and varied across age. In sum, I used longitudinal and family-based, quasi-experimental designs to better understand the interplay between family factors, child factors, and the development of emotional and behavioral problems in children. I found that the associations were nuanced and varied across a range of factors, and that we have much to do to improve on our understanding of the mechanisms by which offspring emotional and behavioral problems are associated with parent factors and behaviors. |
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Vaughan, Erikka B. Parent Factors and Offspring Emotional and Behavioral Problems during Childhood and Adolescence. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University, 2017. |