IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/cysrev/v116y2020ics019074092030445x.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Family functioning and adolescent behavior problems: A moderated mediation model of caregiver depression and neighborhood collective efficacy

Author

Listed:
  • Du, Xi
  • Kim, Youn Kyoung

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to explore the influence of early adolescents’ ecological systems on their behavior problems later in middle adolescence. Specifically, this study tested: (1) whether caregiver depression mediated the relationship between family functioning and behavior problems (internalizing problems or externalizing problems) and (2) how those mediating effects vary depending on levels of neighborhood collective efficacy. The sample was drawn from the Longitudinal Study of Child Abuse and Neglect, consisting of 450 participants for which complete data were available at ages 12, 14, and 16. Mediation and moderated mediation analyses were conducted using PROCESS Macro 3.4. with the regression bootstrapping method. The results showed that caregiver depression significantly mediated the relationship between family functioning and adolescents’ behavioral problems for both internalizing and externalizing behaviors. Furthermore, in the two moderated mediation models, the indirect effect of family functioning on internalizing problems through caregiver depression was significantly different based on levels of neighborhood collective efficacy, but it was not significantly different for externalizing problems. Specifically, the indirect effect of family functioning on internalizing problems was greater for adolescents living in neighborhoods with lower levels of collective efficacy than those in neighborhoods with moderate and high levels of collective efficacy. The findings on ecological system risk and protective factors provide important implications for early interventions to mitigate behavioral problems among adolescents.

Suggested Citation

  • Du, Xi & Kim, Youn Kyoung, 2020. "Family functioning and adolescent behavior problems: A moderated mediation model of caregiver depression and neighborhood collective efficacy," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 116(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:cysrev:v:116:y:2020:i:c:s019074092030445x
    DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2020.105270
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S019074092030445X
    Download Restriction: Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1016/j.childyouth.2020.105270?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Fan, Yingling & Chen, Qian, 2012. "Family functioning as a mediator between neighborhood conditions and children's health: Evidence from a national survey in the United States," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 74(12), pages 1939-1947.
    2. Withers, Mathew C. & Cooper, Ashley & Rayburn, Allison D. & McWey, Lenore M., 2016. "Parent-adolescent relationship quality as a link in adolescent and maternal depression," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 70(C), pages 309-314.
    3. Yingzi Zhang, 2018. "Family functioning in the context of an adult family member with illness: A concept analysis," Journal of Clinical Nursing, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 27(15-16), pages 3205-3224, August.
    4. Browning, Christopher R. & Soller, Brian & Jackson, Aubrey L., 2015. "Neighborhoods and adolescent health-risk behavior: An ecological network approach," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 125(C), pages 163-172.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Chen, Xiaoxiao & Shao, Jingjin & Pu, Xin & Wang, Zhi, 2023. "Childhood maltreatment and adolescents’ peer victimization: The effect of security, school connectedness and gender," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 148(C).
    2. Eugene, Danielle R. & Du, Xi & Kim, Youn Kyoung, 2021. "School climate and peer victimization among adolescents: A moderated mediation model of school connectedness and parental involvement," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 121(C).
    3. Schreier, Alayna & Stenersen, Madeline R. & Strambler, Michael J. & Marshall, Tim & Bracey, Jeana & Kaufman, Joy S., 2023. "Needs of caregivers of youth enrolled in a statewide system of care: A latent class analysis," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 147(C).
    4. Xianglian Yu & Xiangtian Kong & Ziyu Cao & Zhijuan Chen & Lin Zhang & Binbin Yu, 2022. "Social Support and Family Functioning during Adolescence: A Two-Wave Cross-Lagged Study," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(10), pages 1-10, May.

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. O'Brien, Daniel T. & Farrell, Chelsea & Welsh, Brandon C., 2019. "Broken (windows) theory: A meta-analysis of the evidence for the pathways from neighborhood disorder to resident health outcomes and behaviors," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 228(C), pages 272-292.
    2. Patricia Marín-Maicas & Silvia Corchón & Leire Ambrosio & Mari Carmen Portillo, 2021. "Living with Long Term Conditions from the Perspective of Family Caregivers. A Scoping Review and Narrative Synthesis," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(14), pages 1-22, July.
    3. Li, Mengying & Johnson, Sara B. & Musci, Rashelle J. & Riley, Anne W., 2017. "Perceived neighborhood quality, family processes, and trajectories of child and adolescent externalizing behaviors in the United States," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 192(C), pages 152-161.
    4. Valdés-Cuervo, Angel Alberto & Alcántar-Nieblas, Carolina & Martínez-Ferrer, Belén & Parra-Pérez, Lizeth, 2018. "Relations between restorative parental discipline, family climate, parental support, empathy, shame, and defenders in bullying," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 95(C), pages 152-159.
    5. Victoria Vaughan Dickson & Halia Melnyk & Rosie Ferris & Alejandra Leon & Mauricio Arcila-Mesa & Crystalinda Rapozo & Joshua Chodosh & Caroline S. Blaum, 2023. "Perceptions of Treatment Burden Among Caregivers of Elders With Diabetes and Co-morbid Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias: A Qualitative Study," Clinical Nursing Research, , vol. 32(4), pages 752-758, May.
    6. Andrew L. Whitehead, 2017. "Neighborhoods, Family Functioning, and Mothers’ Mental Health for Families with a Child with an Autism Spectrum Disorder," Applied Research in Quality of Life, Springer;International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies, vol. 12(3), pages 633-651, September.
    7. Nooshin Razani & Saam Morshed & Michael A Kohn & Nancy M Wells & Doug Thompson & Maoya Alqassari & Amaka Agodi & George W Rutherford, 2018. "Effect of park prescriptions with and without group visits to parks on stress reduction in low-income parents: SHINE randomized trial," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 13(2), pages 1-17, February.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:eee:cysrev:v:116:y:2020:i:c:s019074092030445x. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Catherine Liu (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/childyouth .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.