Title

Emerging Adults' Stress And Health: The Role Of Parent Behaviors And Cognitions

Keywords

Cognition; Emerging adult; Health; Parent; Stress

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. © 2012 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.

Publication Date

2-1-2013

Publication Title

Child Psychiatry and Human Development

Volume

44

Issue

1

Number of Pages

19-38

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10578-012-0309-y

Socpus ID

84873077091 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84873077091

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