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- Koning, Ina M., et al.
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Preventing Heavy Alcohol Use in Adolescents (PAS) : Cluster Randomized Trial of a Parent and Student Intervention offered Separately and Simultaneously
- 2009
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In: Addiction. - : Wiley-Blackwell. - 0965-2140 .- 1360-0443. ; 104:10, s. 1669-1678
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Aims: To evaluate the effectiveness of two preventive interventions to reduce heavy drinking in first- and second-year high school students.Design and setting: Cluster randomized controlled trial using four conditions for comparing two active interventions with a control group from 152 classes of 19 high schools in the Netherlands.Participants: A total of 3490 first-year high school students (mean 12.68 years, SD = 0.51) and their parents.Intervention conditions: (i) Parent intervention (modelled on the Swedish Örebro Prevention Program) aimed at encouraging parental rule-setting concerning their children's alcohol consumption; (ii) student intervention consisting of four digital lessons based on the principles of the theory of planned behaviour and social cognitive theory; (iii) interventions 1 and 2 combined; and (iv) the regular curriculum as control condition.Main outcome measures: Incidence of (heavy) weekly alcohol use and frequency of monthly drinking at 10 and 22 months after baseline measurement.Findings: A total of 2937 students were eligible for analyses in this study. At first follow-up, only the combined student–parent intervention showed substantial and statistically significant effects on heavy weekly drinking, weekly drinking and frequency of drinking. At second follow-up these results were replicated, except for the effects of the combined intervention on heavy weekly drinking. These findings were consistent across intention-to-treat and completers-only analyses.Conclusions: Results suggest that adolescents as well as their parents should be targeted in order to delay the onset of drinking, preferably prior to onset of weekly drinking.
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- Engels, Rutger C. M. E., et al.
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Illusions of parental control : parenting and smoking onset in Dutch and Swedish adolescents
- 2005
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In: Journal of Applied Social Psychology. - : Blackwell Publishing. - 0021-9029 .- 1559-1816. ; 35:9, s. 1912-1935
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Parental control is assumed to be associated with smoking onset: Parents who exert control on their children and monitor their children's behavior are less likely to have children who start to smoke. However, the empirical evidence for this assumption is mostly from cross-sectional studies. The present research examined the prospective associations between parental control and smoking onset among Dutch and Swedish adolescents and their parents. Findings revealed nonsignificant links between general parental control and smoking onset in both samples, and no link between smoking-specific parental control and smoking onset in the Dutch sample, thereby questioning the assumption that parental control prevents adolescent smoking onset.
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Friends, lovers, and groups : key relationships in adolescence
- 2007
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Editorial collection (other academic/artistic)abstract
- (From the cover) Everyone agrees that peers are important in adolescence. Recently, there have been some noteworthy advances in research on adolescent peer relationships and this volume, written by leading experts, presents four key areas of these innovative studies. Firstly, the discovery of a "deviancy training" mechanism of peer influence is examined, in which antisocial pairs have been observed to reward each other with approval for deviant or antisocial talk, and this has been linked to escalations in antisocial behavior. The second area is the study of romantic partners as important peer relationships in adolescence. This is a newly emerging field of research with only a dozen or so studies published to date. The text then looks at the application of behavioral genetic analytical techniques to understand peer selection and influence processes. This line of research will also shed a new light on social environmental influences on adolescent problem behaviors. The final area covers the use of designs that capture both in-school and out-of-school peers in order to understand their relative influence on problem behavior. As the first of the Hot Topics in Developmental Research series, a three-part developmental psychology range, this volume presents the work of highly prestigious chapter authors edited by Rutger Engels, Margaret Kerr and Håkan Stattin. This research tool is useful reading for researchers, final year undergraduates and postgraduates in developmental and health psychology, and child psychologists.
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- Overbeek, Geertjan, et al.
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Co-occurrence of depressive moods and delinquency in early adolescence : the role of failure expectations, manipulativeness, and social contexts
- 2006
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In: International Journal of Behavioral Development. - : Sage Publications. - 0165-0254 .- 1464-0651. ; 30:5, s. 433-443
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This study examined the co-occurrence of depression and delinquency in early adolescents, focusing on longitudinal associations with failure expectations and manipulativeness, and on perceptions of relationships with parents, school and teachers, and peers. Data were used from 1,059 Swedish adolescents aged 13 to 15, who participated in 2 waves (T1 - 1998; T2 - 2000) of an ongoing longitudinal research. Results showed that depression and delinquency co-occurred in about 9% of respondents, and that depression and delinquency followed separate developments throughout early adolescence. Development of co-occurring depression and delinquency was positively linked to a later constellation of high failure expectations and manipulativeness across a 2-year period. Additionally, the development of combined failure expectations and manipulativeness was positively linked to a later co-occurrence of depression and delinquency across a 2-year period. Further, the cooccurrence of depression and delinquency was predicted by lower-quality relationships with parents and negative attitudes towards school and teachers, whereas a constellation of high failure expectations and manipulativeness was linked to earlier negative interactions with parents and feeling isolated from peers.
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- Overbeek, Geertjan, et al.
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Ouder-kind relaties en sociaal-emotionele problematiek in de volwassenheid : Een prospectief onderzoek van geboorte tot volwassenheid
- 2007
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In: Kind en Adolescent. - 0167-2436. ; 28:1, s. 4-19
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In dit onderzoek zijn verbanden onderzocht tussen de ouder-kind relatie en de sociaal-emotionele ontwikkeling gedurende de levensloop. Er werden gegevens gebruikt van 212 personen die van hun geboorte tot en met hun zevenendertigste jaar zijn gevolgd. sem-analyses maakten duidelijk dat een lagere affectieve kwaliteit van ouder-kind relaties gerelateerd was aan een hoger niveau van conflict en lagere kwaliteit van communicatie met ouders in de adolescentie. Deze conflictueuze ouder-adolescent relaties waren op hun beurt weer verbonden met een lagere kwaliteit van partnerrelaties in de jongvolwassenheid, en meer ontevredenheid met het leven (maar niet depressie of angst) tijdens de middenvolwassenheid, op 37-jarige leeftijd.
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- Overbeek, Geertjan, et al.
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Parent-child relationships, partner relationships, and emotional adjustment : a birth-to-maturity prospective study
- 2007
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In: Developmental Psychology. - : American Psychological Association (APA). - 0012-1649 .- 1939-0599. ; 43:2, s. 429-437
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- This study examined whether detrimental childhood relationships with parents were related to partner relationship quality and emotional adjustment in adulthood. The authors tested a theoretical model in which (a) low-quality parent-child relationships were related to conflict and low-quality communication with parents in adolescence, (b) parent-adolescent conflict and low-quality communication were linked to low-quality partner relationships in young adulthood, and (c) low-quality partner relationships in young adulthood were predictive of low-quality partner relationships as well as depression, anxiety, and dissatisfaction with life at midlife. Multi-informant data were used from 212 Swedish individuals who were followed from birth into adulthood. Results demonstrated that, as hypothesized, negative parent-child bonds were indirectly related to low-quality partner relationships and dissatisfaction with life in adulthood (but not anxiety and depression) through conflictual parent-adolescent communication and low-quality partner relationships in young adulthood.
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- Trost, Kari
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A new look at parenting during adolescence : reciprocal interactions in everyday life
- 2002
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- In this dissertation I pose the question: Under what conditions are parent-child relationships linked to good, or bad, adolescent adjustment and under what conditions are they not? Study I focused on subjects with multiproblematic adjustment. It was proposed that multiproblematic adjustment in adolescence (as well as in late childhood and early adulthood) has to be seen in terms of individual and family characteristics early in life. The findings confirmed the hypothesis that children characterized by both pre-school conduct problem and poor mother-child relations, later in life showed considerably more problems in different environments than did children with other combinations of conduct problems and mother relations. Studies II-IV aimed at understanding the association between parent-child relationships and adjustment specifically during adolescence. Study II examined how parental trust could be gained, the importance of it, and how it could be linked to adolescent adjustment. Since the trust that parents expressed relative to their children was assumed to be primarily based on the knowledge parents have about their children, three possible sources of parental knowledge were examined (of child’s feelings and concerns, of past delinquency, and of daily activities) along with sources of parental knowledge itself. The results showed that parents’ knowledge of daily activities that came from the child’s spontaneous disclosure was most closely linked to their trust in their child, and parents’ trust, in turn, was associated with good parent-child relations and good adjustment on part of the adolescent. Study III examined how parental control, warmth, and communication in the parent-child relationship are associated with positive and negative adolescent adjustment. Structural equations tests of a theoretical model suggested that the link from parental warmth through parental control to adolescent adjustment was weak compared with the path from parental warmth through child disclosure to adolescent adjustment. Across informants, direct parental control was minimally important, if at all. Study IV examined whether adolescents’ not wanting parental involvement was a normal part of the parent-child relationship during adolescence. It was shown that not wanting parents to be involved generally was a sign of poor adolescent adjustment, even when controlling for problem behaviors and family problems. Person-oriented analyses identified a group of adolescents who wanted low levels of parental involvement, who were normal in terms of family problems and behavior problems and showed evidence of healthy psychological functioning. In view of the small size of this group (11%), and the results from the analyses of linear relations, it was concluded that the combination of adolescents’ desires to manage their own free time and healthy functioning is not as normative as it is normally thought. Overall, the results from these four studies provide a basis for taking a bi-directional approach to understanding the parent-child relationship during adolescence, and in particular examining the child’s active role in his or her development. Furthermore, two new issues were brought up in the present dissertation, 1) a new interpretation of problem aggregation and 2) a new view of the parent-child relationship during adolescence. Directions for future research, practical implications for adolescents, their parents, and the issue of generality are included in the discussion.
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What can parents do? : new insights into the role of parents in adolescent problem behavior
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Editorial collection (other academic/artistic)abstract
- In recent years research on parenting has changed stance from one where parents shape child outcomes to an interactive perspective. However this shift is only now transferring to adolescents, with research exploring how the roles that adolescents and parents play in their interactions can lead to problem behaviour. Part of the Hot Topics in Developmental Research series, this book presents the new perspective.
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