Parents who hit and scream: Interactive effects of verbal and severe physical aggression on clinic-referred adolescents’ adjustment
| Autor: | Qijuan Fang, Paul Boxer, Michelle LeRoy, Rebecca Lakin Gullan, Annette Mahoney |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Domestic Violence Adolescent Poison control Child Behavior Disorders macromolecular substances Suicide prevention Occupational safety and health Developmental psychology Adjustment Disorders Injury prevention Developmental and Educational Psychology medicine Humans Child Abuse Parent-Child Relations Child Verbal Behavior Aggression Human factors and ergonomics Mental health Psychiatry and Mental health Interactive effects Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Female medicine.symptom Psychology |
| Zdroj: | Child Abuse & Neglect. 38:893-901 |
| ISSN: | 0145-2134 |
| Popis: | The goals of this study were first, to delineate the co-occurrence of parental severe physical aggression and verbal aggression toward clinic-referred adolescents, and second, to examine the interactive effects of parental severe physical aggression and verbal aggression on adolescent externalizing and internalizing behavior problems. This research involved 239 referrals of 11- to 18-year-old youth and their dual-parent families to a non-profit, private community mental health center in a semi-rural Midwest community. Multiple informants (i.e., adolescents and mothers) were used to assess parental aggression and adolescent behavior problems. More than half of clinic-referred adolescents (51%) experienced severe physical aggression and/or high verbal aggression from one or both parents. A pattern of interactive effects of mother-to-adolescent severe physical aggression and verbal aggression on adolescent behavior problems emerged, indicating that when severe physical aggression was present, mother-to-adolescent verbal aggression was positively associated with greater adolescent behavior problems whereas when severe physical aggression was not present, the links between verbal aggression and behavior problems was no longer significant. No interactive effects were found for father-to-adolescent severe physical aggression and verbal aggression on adolescent adjustment; however, higher father-to-adolescent verbal aggression was consistently linked to behavior problems above and beyond the influence of severe physical aggression. The results of this study should promote the practice of routinely assessing clinic-referred adolescents and their parents about their experiences of verbal aggression in addition to severe physical aggression and other forms of abuse. |
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