title: Perceived family conflict, parental attachment, and depression in African American female adolescents.
abstract: The purpose of this study was to test a hypothesized model that explored the degree to which parental attachment mediated the relationship between perceived family conflict and depression in a sample of 283 African American female adolescents. Results revealed that perceived family conflict had both a direct and an indirect effect on depression, with parental attachment mediating 28% of the effect of perceived family conflict on depression. Implications of the findings are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Counseling and Clinical Psychology, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA. mc816@columbia.edu
authors.forename: Madonna G
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Constantine
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001741:Black or African American / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D001290:Attitude; D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D003863:Depression / Q000208:ethnology*; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009769:Object Attachment; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires