Title

Emerging Adults' Stress and Health: The Role of Parent Behaviors and Cognitions

Authors

Authors

R. Donnelly; K. Renk;C. McKinney

Comments

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Abbreviated Journal Title

Child Psychiat. Hum. Dev.

Keywords

Emerging adult; Stress; Health; Parent; Cognition; GENERAL SELF-EFFICACY; COLLEGE-STUDENTS; EXPECTATION DISCREPANCIES; PERSEVERATIVE COGNITION; CONTINUED ATTACHMENT; BONDING INSTRUMENT; PERCEIVED STRESS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; RESPONSES; APPRAISAL; Psychology, Developmental; Pediatrics; Psychiatry

Abstract

Although parent behaviors and cognitions are important for stress/health outcomes throughout development, little research examines whether cognitions mediate the relationship between parent behaviors and stress/health outcomes. As a result, the current study examined the reports of 160 emerging adults regarding their mothers' and fathers' behaviors (via the Parental Bonding Instrument and Alabama Parenting Questionnaire), their cognitions (via the Stress Appraisal Measure, Negative Mood Regulation Scale, Life Orientation Test-Revised, General Self-Efficacy Scale, and Ruminative Response Scale-Abbreviated), and their stress/health outcomes (via the Perceived Stress Scale and Short-Form Health Survey). Results of this study suggested that emerging adults' cognitions partially mediated the relationship between their mothers' behaviors and their stress/health outcomes and fully mediated the relationship between their fathers' behaviors and their stress/health outcomes. Future research should examine parent behaviors as important distal variables in emerging adults' stress/health outcomes but should examine cognitions as more salient, immediate predictors of their stress/health outcomes.

Journal Title

Child Psychiatry & Human Development

Volume

44

Issue/Number

1

Publication Date

1-1-2013

Document Type

Article

Language

English

First Page

19

Last Page

38

WOS Identifier

WOS:000314065000002

ISSN

0009-398X

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