Using the Double ABC-X Model of Family Stress to Understand Parent-Adolescent Relationships, Stress Perception, and Family Functioning
Using the Double ABC-X Model of Family Stress to Understand Parent-Adolescent Relationships, Stress Perception, and Family Functioning

Author: Julia Hollingsworth Jones

Publisher:

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 0

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Stress is a prevalent and concerning reality for families, and when stressors are long lasting or severe, they can lead to a crisis. The ABC-X Model of Family Stress proposes that experienced stressors lead to family outcomes of bonadaptivity, adaptivity, or maladaptivity (crisis) based on family resources and perceptions of the stressor. These two factors act as mediators of the impact of experienced stressors and affect how a family responds. Attachment Theory suggests the relationship between parents and adolescents can determine how both respond to one another under stress. Physiological theories suggest that stressors affect the mind and body in ways that lead to either poor responses or prosocial responses. The study aims were to test the ABC-X Model of Family Stress by 1) a double mediation of the relationship between experienced stressors and family functioning using the mediators of parent-adolescent relationship quality and stress perceptions, and 2) to test parent and adolescent relationship quality reports in a dyadic model with a Common Fate Model design. Using an archival secondary data set from the LONGSCAN study, these aims were tested on a sample of 769 families. Results of the model for hypothesis 1 showed that both mediation paths were significant, while the direct effect between experienced stressors and family functioning, while previously significant, was no longer significant when the mediators were added to the model, indicating mediation of both variables. Hypothesis 2 was also supported with results showing that parent and adolescent reports were both significant on the latent variable of relationship quality. These findings support the ABC-X Model of Family Stress and highlight how the family resource of parent-adolescent relationship quality is a significant factor in how families respond to stress. Clinical implications include family level interventions, especially those focused on improving attachment and relationship quality, and improving stress perception through physiological and neurological awareness.

Family Life in Adolescence
Family Life in Adolescence

Author: Patricia Noller

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2014-10-08

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 3110402491

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Many parents fear the time when their beautiful happy children will become unmanageable adolescents continually engaging in risky or destructive behaviour. Unfortunately, this view of adolescents is the focus of the media, even though it relates to just a small proportion of young people. As the large amount of research we report shows, most adolescents are responsible young people who care about their families and crave the support of their parents. It is also true, however, as much research indicates, that the quality of the relationship parents have with their adolescents is crucial to the wellbeing of those young people. We discuss the need for parents to set reasonable limits on their adolescents and to expect appropriate behavior. We also show, on the basis of research, that children who have experienced positive, caring relationships with their parents are more likely than other adolescents to behave responsibly. In other words, behavior in adolescence does not ‘come out of nowhere’ but builds on earlier experiences in the family. Because of the large amount of research reported in this volume, we expect that it will be useful to practitioners from a range of professions that are likely to focus on adolescents: social workers, youth leaders, welfare workers, religious leaders, psychologists and psychiatrists and contribute to a better understanding of young people and their development, and the importance of families to that development.

Adolescents, Family, and Friends
Adolescents, Family, and Friends

Author: Kandi M. Stinson

Publisher: Praeger

Published: 1991-02-28

Total Pages: 204

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Whom do teenagers turn to when they need emotional support? In this contribution to the literature on adolescent social support networks, Kandi Stinson conducts thirty in-depth interviews with adolescents and their custodial parents. She divides her interviews evenly between children living with both biological parents, with the divorced mother, and with the divorced mother and stepfather. Do the structure and effectiveness of the adolescents' social support networks vary in these three environments? What are the implications of these variations for adolescent well-being? Focusing on what kinds of networks most adequately meet the needs of adolescents, Stinson concludes that the relationship between adolescent and mother is crucial in determining the size and structure of support networks and that variations in the mother's marital status have a great impact on the number, kinds, and quality of support networks. Stinson's study explores the answers to three guiding questions: What do adolescent support networks look like? How are these networks affected by the divorce or remarriage of parents? What are the impacts of network size and structure on adolescent well-being? Following a review of literature, Stinson describes the size and structural characteristics of networks. She then focuses four chapters on those particular network relationships which emerge as significant sources of support: mother-adolescent, father-adolescent, relationships with relatives, and adolescent friendships. In her final chapter Stinson applies her empirical results to her guiding questions. This study is directed at researchers and practitioners specializing in adolescent well-being, divorce, and remarriage counseling.

The Adolescent in the Family
The Adolescent in the Family

Author: Patricia Noller

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-12-22

Total Pages: 185

ISBN-13: 1317359305

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Adolescence can be a difficult time for all concerned. Issues such as high youth unemployment, sexual behaviour and drug abuse have made it a matter of great concern for the community at large, whether as parents, politicians or those working with adolescents in education and welfare. In addition, many parents fear that these problems could affect their own families. Originally published in 1991, the authors explore the complex needs of adolescents emphasising the importance of the family environment in helping adolescents cope with the many difficulties and changes they face during this period of their lives. The central theme is that adolescents, through conflict and negotiation, establish new but different relationships with their parents, relationships that can endure for a lifetime. The authors provide wide coverage of the key issues of adolescence, such as identity, separation from the family, and conflict, and look closely at the difficulties produced by events such as the divorce and re-marriage of parents, and social problems such as long-term unemployment. With its positive approach to the family and adolescents, this clear, concise and helpful book will be invaluable both to parents and to the many professionals whose work involves them with adolescents.