title: Parental employment status and adolescents' health: the role of financial situation, parent-adolescent relationship and adolescents' resilience.
abstract: The paper deals with parental employment status and its relationship to adolescents' self-reported health. It studies the role of the financial situation, parent-adolescent relationship and adolescent resilience in the relationship between parental employment status and adolescents' self-rated health, vitality and mental health. Multiple regression analyses were used to analyse questionnaire data obtained from 2799 adolescents (mean age 14.3) in 2006. The results show a negative association of the father's, but not mother's unemployment or non-employment with adolescents' health. Regression analyses showed that neither financial strain nor a poor parent-adolescent relationship or a low score in resilience accounted for the relationship between the father's unemployment or non-employment and poorer adolescent health. Furthermore, resilience did not work as a buffer against the negative impact of fathers' unemployment on adolescents' health.
authors.affiliation: a Faculty of Arts, Department of Educational Psychology and Psychology of Health , P.J. Safarik University , Kosice , Slovak Republic.
authors.forename: Maria
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bacikova-Sleskova
authors.forename: Jozef
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Benka
authors.forename: Olga
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Orosova
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D004651:Employment / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010290:Parents; D012044:Regression Analysis; D055500:Resilience, Psychological; D057566:Self Report; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
keywords: adolescence; financial strain; parental employment status; parent–adolescent relationship; resilience; self-reported health