TY - JOUR
T1 - Effects of Family Context on Adolescents’ Psychological Problems
T2 - Moderated by Pubertal Timing, and Mediated by Self-Esteem and Interpersonal Relationships
AU - Lin, Chung Ying
AU - Tsai, Meng Che
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported in part by the Taiwan Ministry of Education and in part by the Aim for the Top University Project at National Cheng Kung University (NCKU).
Funding Information:
The Taiwan Youth Project was sponsored by the Academia Sinica (AS-93-TP-C01) and directed by Dr Chin-Chun Yi. The Center for Survey Research of the Academia Sinica is responsible for the data distribution. We thank Dr Yi and everyone else at the Academia Sinica and the Taiwan Youth Project for providing the data and for all the other assistance they gave us.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2015, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht and The International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies (ISQOLS).
PY - 2016/9/1
Y1 - 2016/9/1
N2 - We examined the potential mediational roles of self-esteem and interpersonal relationships that link the effect of family context on psychological outcomes in 5214 junior high school students. The moderating effects of pubertal timing were also examined. Pubertal development scores were used to measure pubertal status. Separate mediational models were examined across subgroups with different pubertal timings (i.e., early puberty, on-time puberty, and late puberty). Self-esteem and interpersonal relationships mediated the association between family context and psychological consequences. Although early-maturing adolescents tended to have more psychological problems, they were usually more strongly influenced by self-esteem than were their late-maturing counterparts. Self-esteem and interpersonal relationships were both important when dealing with adolescent psychological problems, particularly for those who mature early. Clinicians should be able to recognize these problems associated with pubertal transition and provide appropriate counseling with a focus on positive adaption to reduce adverse psychological and behavioral consequences.
AB - We examined the potential mediational roles of self-esteem and interpersonal relationships that link the effect of family context on psychological outcomes in 5214 junior high school students. The moderating effects of pubertal timing were also examined. Pubertal development scores were used to measure pubertal status. Separate mediational models were examined across subgroups with different pubertal timings (i.e., early puberty, on-time puberty, and late puberty). Self-esteem and interpersonal relationships mediated the association between family context and psychological consequences. Although early-maturing adolescents tended to have more psychological problems, they were usually more strongly influenced by self-esteem than were their late-maturing counterparts. Self-esteem and interpersonal relationships were both important when dealing with adolescent psychological problems, particularly for those who mature early. Clinicians should be able to recognize these problems associated with pubertal transition and provide appropriate counseling with a focus on positive adaption to reduce adverse psychological and behavioral consequences.
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U2 - 10.1007/s11482-015-9410-2
DO - 10.1007/s11482-015-9410-2
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84929104230
SN - 1871-2584
VL - 11
SP - 907
EP - 923
JO - Applied Research in Quality of Life
JF - Applied Research in Quality of Life
IS - 3
ER -