title: The development of perceived maternal hostile, aggressive conflict from adolescence to early adulthood: antecedents and outcomes.
abstract: The goal of this study was to investigate the development of mother-adolescent hostile aggressive conflict (MHAC) from late adolescence to young adulthood. The role of child' depressive and delinquency problems and family characteristics, as well as the relation of level and change in MHAC to adolescents' delinquency and depression in early adulthood will be investigated. From the Genzano Longitudinal study 385 adolescents (51% males) participated in this study and completed self report measures. Latent growth curve modeling, separately by gender, indicated that the overall level MHAC exhibited a modest decline over time. For both males and females, depressive problems were associated to higher initial levels of MHAC and early maternal age predicted less decline of MHAC. Starting levels of MHAC were associated with Delinquency in males and with Depression in females, while the growth of MHAC was associated to delinquency in males and females and to depression in males.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, "Sapienza" University of Rome, Italy. Electronic address: valeria.castellani@uniroma1.it.
authors.forename: Valeria
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Castellani
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, "Sapienza" University of Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: Concetta
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Pastorelli
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, USA.
authors.forename: Nancy
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Eisenberg
authors.affiliation: University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy.
authors.forename: Ernesto
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Caffo
authors.affiliation: University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy.
authors.forename: Barbara
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Forresi
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, "Sapienza" University of Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: Maria
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gerbino
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D041923:Adolescent Development; D000374:Aggression / Q000523:psychology*; D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D003863:Depression / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D007604:Juvenile Delinquency / Q000523:psychology; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D009034:Mother-Child Relations / Q000523:psychology*; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Delinquency; Depression; Emerging adulthood; Longitudinal analysis; Youths–mother hostile aggressive conflict