title: Family conflict, mood, and adolescents' daily school problems: moderating roles of internalizing and externalizing symptoms.
abstract: Using daily diary data, this study examined cross-day associations between family conflict and school problems and tested mediating effects of daily negative mood and moderating effects of psychological symptoms. For 2 weeks, parents and adolescents (N = 106; Mage = 15.4) reported daily conflict; adolescents reported daily negative mood and school problems. Results indicated bidirectional, multiday spillover between parent-adolescent conflict and school problems with daily negative mood statistically accounting for spillover both within and across days. Externalizing symptoms strengthened links between father-adolescent conflict and school problems, whereas depressive and anxious symptoms strengthened links between parent-adolescent conflict and daily negative mood. By demonstrating cross-domain transmission of daily problems, these findings highlight the salience of everyday events as possible intervention targets.
authors.affiliation: University of Southern California.
authors.forename: Adela C
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Timmons
authors.forename: Gayla
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Margolin
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D000328:Adult; D000339:Affect / Q000502:physiology*; D000368:Aged; D054541:Family Conflict / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D000066553:Problem Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D012574:Schools