Primary Headache in Italian Early Adolescents: The Role of Perceived Teacher Unfairness

This study focused on early adolescents’ stress of language brokering and examined the moderating role of family cumulative risk in the relation of language brokering to adjustment problems. Data came from self-reports of 604 low-income Mexican American adolescent language brokers (54% female; [Formula: see text]= 12.4; SD = 0.97; 75% born in the United States) and their parents (99% foreign-born) in central Texas. Path analyses revealed that brokering stress, but not frequency, was positively associated with adolescents’ adjustment problems, including depressive symptoms, anxiety, and delinquency. We also found that the relation between stress of brokering for mothers and adolescents’ depressive symptoms was stronger among families with a high cumulative risk. Further, with a high cumulative risk, adolescents exhibited delinquent behaviors regardless of the levels of stress from translating for fathers. Current findings underscore the importance of examining family contexts in assessing the consequences of language brokering for Mexican American early adolescents’ well-being.

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The Effects of Parent-Classmate-Teacher Support on Early Adolescents’ School Mental Health: the Mediating Role of Mental Toughness

Contemporary School Psychology ◽

10.1007/s40688-020-00299-5 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Yağmur Soylu ◽

Ali Serdar Sağkal ◽

Yalçın Özdemir

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Teacher Support ◽

School Mental Health ◽

Early Adolescents ◽

Mental Toughness ◽

Mediating Role

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Maternal Affection Moderates the Associations Between Parenting Stress and Early Adolescents’ Externalizing and Internalizing Behavior

The Journal of Early Adolescence ◽

10.1177/0272431619833490 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 40 (2) ◽

pp. 221-248 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Gintautas Silinskas ◽

Noona Kiuru ◽

Kaisa Aunola ◽

Riitta-Leena Metsäpelto ◽

Marja-Kristiina Lerkkanen ◽

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Keyword(s):

Secondary School ◽

Primary School ◽

Parenting Stress ◽

Externalizing Behavior ◽

Early Adolescents ◽

Moderating Effect ◽

Internalizing Behavior ◽

Lower Secondary School

The present study investigated the role of parenting stress in early adolescents’ externalizing and internalizing behavior and, particularly, the moderating effect of maternal affection on these associations. The data of 992 early adolescents ([Formula: see text]; 454 girls) and their mothers during the transition from primary school to lower secondary school were analyzed. The results showed that when maternal affection was low, parenting stress was not related to the changes in early adolescents’ externalizing or internalizing behavior. In contrast, when maternal affection was high, low parenting stress related to a decrease and high parenting stress to an increase in such behavior. The results were statistically significant and stronger for internalizing behavior; for externalizing behavior, they were marginally significant but showed the same pattern. Overall, the results support the idea that maternal affection provides a context which intensifies (rather than ameliorates) the influence of parenting stress on early adolescents’ externalizing and internalizing behavior.

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