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

    Authors

    R. Donnelly; K. Renk;C. McKinney

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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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