Effects on later adjustment of living a stepfamily during childhood and adolescence
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There have been considerable changes to the structure and stability of western families over recent decades. A study of the link between entry into a stepfamily after the age of six years and risks of poor adjustment at age 18 years, has been undertaken. This was to determine the extent to which exposure to a stepfamily was linked with psychosocial adjustment and restricted life opportunities. The results showed elevated risk of a range of psychosocial outcomes at age 18, for children exposed to living in a stepfamily between age six and 16. However much of association is linked to social, contextual and individual factors already present.
Publication Name: Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0021-9630
Year: 1999
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Adolescent resiliency to family adversity
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High risk teenagers who are resilient to externalizing problems tend to have a higher IQ than their nonresilient peers. In addition, a 16-yr study of teenagers in New Zealand shows that resilient teenagers tend to avoid affiliating with delinquent peers and show lower novelty seeking behaviors than their nonresilient peers. Resilient teenagers are characterized by high exposure to family adversity during childhood without the development of externalizing problems during adolescence such as substance abuse, school problems, and juvenile offences.
Publication Name: Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0021-9630
Year: 1996
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Maternal depressive symptoms and depressive symptoms in adolescents
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A study of influence of maternal depressive symptoms on adolescents showed that maternal depression affects depression in adolescence only when the maternal depression is related to disturbances in the social and marital life. An evident correlation between maternal depressive symptoms and associated depressive symptoms in adolescent females was observed. Male adolescents displayed no such psychological influences due to maternal depressive symptoms.
Publication Name: Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0021-9630
Year: 1995
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