Pathways to competence: parental adversity and the roles of parenting quality and social support.
The authors studied a representative Canadian cohort from the National Longitudinal Study of Children and Youth at 3 points in time, when the participants were aged 10-11 years (n = 2,147), 12-13 years (n = 1,976), and 14-15 years (n = 1,762). The presence of parent-related adversity appeared detrimental to young people's emotional and behavioral competence. Parents' self-reports of adversity predicted children's self-reports of their own behavioral functioning 2 years later. The authors identified parenting quality and social support as independent resource variables for young people's competence, rather than protective variables in the face of parent-related adversity. Latent variable path analyses suggested the increasing value of both resource variables over time for all young people.
MacMillan
Karen M
KM
Mount Royal College. kmacmillan@mtroyal.ca
Violato
Claudio
C
D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D002170:Canada; D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development; D016241:Child of Impaired Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D016013:Likelihood Functions; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008960:Models, Psychological; D016487:Parenting; D012944:Social Support; D012963:Sociometric Techniques