Bullies, those bullied, and individuals reporting both bullying and being bullied all demonstrated poorer psychosocial adjustment than noninvolved youth; however, differences in the pattern of
maladjustment among the groups were observed.
Support from friends and classmates predicts emotional adjustment and resilience, with lower peer support associated with more anxiety, depression, and behavioral
maladjustment among typically developing children (Demaray & Malecki, 2002; Demaray, Malecki, Davidson, Hodgson, & Rebus, 2005; Rubin, Bukowski, & Parker, 2006).
At the same time, certain types of racial socialization messages may also generate an increased susceptibility to psychological
maladjustment among African American adolescents.
According to Robert Emery, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology and Director of the Center for Children, Families, and the Law at the University of Virginia, «Empirical evidence consistently points to parental conflict as the factor that most consistently predicts
maladjustment among children whose parents have separated or divorced.»
Not exact matches
Hopkins says that «clergymen were
among the leading diagnosticians of the industrial
maladjustments of the late «seventies, «13 and their work became more thorough in later decades.
In a sample of 18 -, 30 -, and 42 - month - olds, the relations
among parenting, effortful control (EC), and
maladjustment were examined.
Relations between shyness and certain indices of
maladjustment were stronger
among children with mothers characterized by higher neuroticism, BIS sensitivity, and an overprotective parenting style, and weaker for mothers characterized by high agreeableness and an authoritative parenting style.
A prospective study spanning both the early child - rearing years and the years with adolescent offspring may increase our understanding of how to best preserve relationships
among parents, thereby also identifying risk factors needing to be controlled for in future studies of the association between parental dissolution and child
maladjustment.
Among a series of depressed psychiatric patients, significantly more neurotic depressions than endogenous depressions had maladjusted marriages, and in the majority of cases the
maladjustment was observed to antedate the onset of symptoms.