title: Risk factors for emotional/behavioral problems in young adolescents: a prospective analysis of adolescent and parental stress and symptoms.
abstract: Stressful events in the lives of 309 10- to 15-year-olds and stressful events and psychological symptoms reported by their parents were examined in a 9-month study. Ss' self-reported emotional/behavioral problems were predicted by their reports of stressful events and their fathers' reports of psychological symptoms in cross-sectional analyses. Analyses at follow-up after controlling for initial reports of emotional/behavioral problems and prospective analyses predicting from first assessment to follow-up yielded significant effects for Ss' self-reported stressful events. Mothers' reports of children's problems were predicted by mothers' psychological symptoms in cross-sectional analyses and at follow-up after controlling for initial emotional/behavioral problems. Only prior levels of maternal reports of emotional/behavioral problems predicted mothers' reports of their children's problems 9 months later.
authors.forename: B E
authors.initials: BE
authors.lastname: Compas
authors.forename: D C
authors.initials: DC
authors.lastname: Howell
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Phares
authors.forename: R A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Williams
authors.forename: C T
authors.initials: CT
authors.lastname: Giunta
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology; D011446:Prospective Studies; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent; D002666:Psychology, Child