Adolescent reports of maternal acceptance were associated with lower depressive symptoms and higher self - efficacy, whereas reports of psychological control were associated with higher depressive symptoms.
In contrast,
adolescents reporting higher frequency of prayer than their mothers reported lower levels of sexual risk - taking than those with similar frequency of adolescent / mother prayer.
In contrast, discrepancies in
which adolescents reported that they were less in charge of decisions than was reported by mothers did not relate to more diabetes - related conflict.
These baseline measures in turn predicted
adolescent reports at 18 months of Conflict, Positive Parental Bonds, and Sexual Risk Behavior.
In this regard, children and
adolescents reported very similar levels of happiness, however parents also reported different levels depending on the age of their child.
In particular,
when adolescents reported that they were more in charge of decisions than reported by their mothers, mothers reported more conflict.
Adolescent reports of firm control were not moderated by gender in relation to any outcome and were unrelated to adherence.
Add Health includes an 11 - item parent connectedness scale (Sieving et al., 2001) for which
adolescents reported on the quality of their relationships with their parents and the extent to which their parents care about and support them.
The interaction was not statistically significant, t (145) = 1.01, p >.30, β =.08
for adolescent reports of parental responsibility and self - efficacy.1 However, the interaction was statistically significant for both mothers», t (145) = 2.92, p =.00, β =.27, and fathers» reports, t (143) = 2.14, p <.05, β =.18.
Neither of the subscales of relationship quality measured
by adolescent report shortly after the child's birth predicted parenting at 6 months.
For depressive symptoms, only the main effect of gender emerged as statistically significant, F (1, 687) = 69.67, p < 0.001, indicating that
female adolescents reported higher levels of depressive symptoms compared to male adolescents at both time points F (1, 687) = 69.67, p < 0.001.
For rates of past - year depressed mood and suicidality, over one quarter of
U.S. adolescents reported depressed mood, almost 20 percent experienced serious suicidal thoughts, and 8 percent had attempted suicide.
To complete this initial assessment of adolescents» comparisons, we tested the impact of these adolescent comparisons to a «good parent» standard on factors associated with adolescent risk behavior
including adolescent report of self - disclosure, amount of parental monitoring knowledge, and actual report of risk behaviors in the past four months.
African
American adolescents report that support from their mother is the most important source of support during their transition to parenthood (Nitz, Ketterlinus, & Brandt, 1995).
There was a significant reduction in
adolescent reported conflict with mothers for adolescents in IPT - AST at post-intervention and throughout the 12 - month follow - up period.
Because
most adolescents reported no sexual risk behaviors in both waves and a very few reported multiple risks, sexual risk behavior was treated as a binary variable in the analyses (0, «no risks»; 1, «at least one risk»).
Additionally,
adolescents reporting symptoms of internalizing, externalizing, or both externalizing and internalizing disorders had significantly greater improvements in days of emotional problems relative to adolescents with substance use disorder only.
Researchers estimate that as many as 75 % of children and
adolescents report experiencing some sort of peer victimization, with 10 to 15 % experiencing more severe and prolonged victimization.
Among this age group, 72 percent reported regularly getting seven - plus hours of sleep per night in 1991; by 2012, in the same age group, 63 percent of
adolescents reported regularly receiving seven or more hours of sleep per night.
The more
adolescents reported playing strategic video games, such as role - playing games, the more they improved in problem solving and school grades the following year, according to a long - term study published in 2013.
With regard to developmental shifts in the quality of the parent - adolescent relationship,
midrange adolescents reported a significantly poorer relationship with their mother than older adolescents.
Adolescent reports indicated that 10 % were in the clinical range on internalizing behaviors, 23 % had engaged in major delinquent acts, and 46 % reported some substance use.
The substantive research findings were that Puerto
Rican adolescents reported high levels of attachment to their parents and alliance with their ethnic heritage in early adolescence.
Limitations include small sample size, unbalanced randomization that resulted in less students in the SC group, using
only adolescent reports of mother - child conflict, and the majority of the sample was Hispanic and female.
Results indicated that
adolescents reported improvement on a wide range of emotions and behaviors, including anxiety and depressive symptoms, physical complaints, social relationships, attention and impulsivity, and high risk behaviors.
Recent studies have found that
adolescents reported impaired emotional and behavioral functioning [4] and that 35 % of adolescent daughters and 21 % of adolescent sons reported post-traumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) levels requiring professional care [5].
The lack of findings
between adolescent report of relationship quality and parenting outcomes may be because the adolescent's parenting role and the grandmother's role are still evolving shortly after the child's birth so that parenting satisfaction at 6 months is not affected by their early relationship.
(M) = mother report; (A)
= adolescent report, β = standardized regression coefficient, DV = dependent variable.
Notably, securely
attached adolescents reported faster decreases in mental health symptoms as a function of violence relative to their insecurely attached peers as they transitioned into adulthood.
We hypothesize that demographic characteristics, such as age, gender, extent that
adolescents reported engaging in sexual acts or risky behavior, as well as quality of family bonds, mediated by assignment to a coping skills intervention and level of participation in the program.