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Effects of Parental Warmth and Behavioral Control on Adolescent Externalizing and Internalizing Trajectories Across Cultures.

ABSTRACT: We investigated the effects of parental warmth and behavioral control on externalizing and internalizing symptom trajectories from ages 8 to 14 in 1,298 adolescents from 12 cultural groups. We did not find that single universal trajectories characterized adolescent externalizing and internalizing symptoms across cultures, but instead found significant heterogeneity in starting points and rates of change in both externalizing and internalizing symptoms across cultures. Some similarities did emerge. Across many cultural groups, internalizing symptoms decreased from ages 8 to 10, and externalizing symptoms increased from ages 10 to 14. Parental warmth appears to function similarly in many cultures as a protective factor that prevents the onset and growth of adolescent externalizing and internalizing symptoms, whereas the effects of behavioral control vary from culture to culture.

SUBMITTER: Rothenberg WA

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8059478 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Effects of Parental Warmth and Behavioral Control on Adolescent Externalizing and Internalizing Trajectories Across Cultures.

Rothenberg W Andrew WA Lansford Jennifer E JE Bornstein Marc H MH Chang Lei L Deater-Deckard Kirby K Di Giunta Laura L Dodge Kenneth A KA Malone Patrick S PS Oburu Paul P Pastorelli Concetta C Skinner Ann T AT Sorbring Emma E Steinberg Laurence L Tapanya Sombat S Uribe Tirado Liliana Maria LM Yotanyamaneewong Saengduean S Alampay Liane Peña LP Al-Hassan Suha M SM Bacchini Dario D

Journal of research on adolescence : the official journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence 20200701 4

We investigated the effects of parental warmth and behavioral control on externalizing and internalizing symptom trajectories from ages 8 to 14 in 1,298 adolescents from 12 cultural groups. We did not find that single universal trajectories characterized adolescent externalizing and internalizing symptoms across cultures, but instead found significant heterogeneity in starting points and rates of change in both externalizing and internalizing symptoms across cultures. Some similarities did emerg ...[more]

PMID: 32609411

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Effects of Parental Warmth and Behavioral Control on Adolescent Externalizing and Internalizing Trajectories Across Cultures.

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Effects of Parental Warmth and Behavioral Control on Adolescent Externalizing and Internalizing Trajectories Across Cultures.

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