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Dyadic Coping, Parental Warmth, and Adolescent Externalizing Behavior in Four Countries
Ann T Skinner1, Sevtap Gurdal2, Lei Chang3
1Duke University, USA; Gothenburg University and University West, Sweden.
Abstract:
This study examined parental warmth as a mediator of relations between mothers' and fathers' perceptions of dyadic coping and adolescent externalizing outcomes. Data from 472 adolescents, mothers, and fathers were collected over a three-year period from families in China, Kenya, Sweden, and Thailand. For mothers in all four sites and fathers in three sites, better parental dyadic coping at youth age 13 predicted higher levels of parental warmth at youth age 14. For mothers in all four sites, higher levels of maternal warmth were in turn related to less youth externalizing behavior at age 15, and higher levels of dyadic coping at youth age 13 were related to less youth externalizing behavior at age 15 indirectly through maternal warmth. Emotional Security Theory helps explain the process by which dyadic coping is related to adolescent externalizing behavior. The results have important implications for parent and family-based interventions.
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