TY - JOUR
T1 - Development of internalizing symptoms during adolescence in three countries
T2 - the role of temperament and parenting behaviors
AU - Lunetti, Carolina
AU - Iselin, Anne Marie R.
AU - Di Giunta, Laura
AU - Lansford, Jennifer E.
AU - Eisenberg, Nancy
AU - Pastorelli, Concetta
AU - Bacchini, Dario
AU - Uribe Tirado, Liliana Maria
AU - Thartori, Eriona
AU - Basili, Emanuele
AU - Fiasconaro, Irene
AU - Favini, Ainzara
AU - Gerbino, Maria
AU - Cirimele, Flavia
AU - Remondi, Chiara
AU - Skinner, Ann T.
AU - Rothenberg, W. Andrew
N1 - Funding Information:
Open Access funding provided by Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza. This research was funded by the Jacobs Foundation, the Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation, the Transdisciplinary Prevention Research Center at Duke University, and the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development [grant RO1-HD054805]. Correspondence should be addressed to Carolina Lunetti, Psychology Department, Sapienza University of Rome, Via dei Marsi 78, 00178, Rome, carolina.lunetti@uniroma1.it. This article was written while Laura Di Giunta was a Jacobs Foundation Research Fellow.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - This longitudinal study examined the unique and joint effects of early adolescent temperament and parenting in predicting the development of adolescent internalizing symptoms in a cross-cultural sample. Participants were 544 early adolescents (T1: Mage = 12.58; 49.5% female) and their mothers (n = 530) from Medellín, Colombia (n = 88), Naples, Italy (n = 90), Rome, Italy (n = 100) and Durham, North Carolina, United States (African Americans n = 92, European Americans n = 97, and Latinx n = 77). Early adolescent negative emotionality (i.e., anger and sadness experience), self-regulation (i.e., effortful control), and parent monitoring and psychological control were measured at T1. Adolescent internalizing symptoms were measured at three time points. Latent Growth Curve Modeling (LGCM) without covariates or predictors indicated a slight linear increase in internalizing symptoms from ages 13–16 years across nearly all cultural groups. Multi-group LGCMs demonstrated several paths were consistently invariant across groups when examining how well temperament and parenting predicted intercept and slope factors. Higher initial levels of internalizing symptoms were significantly predicted by higher adolescent negative emotionality and parental psychological control as well as lower adolescent effortful control and parental monitoring measured one year earlier. Overall, adolescent effortful control appeared to protect against the emergence of internalizing symptoms in all cultures, but this effect faded over time. This study advances knowledge of the normative development of internalizing symptoms during adolescence across cultures while highlighting the predictive value of early adolescent temperament and parenting.
AB - This longitudinal study examined the unique and joint effects of early adolescent temperament and parenting in predicting the development of adolescent internalizing symptoms in a cross-cultural sample. Participants were 544 early adolescents (T1: Mage = 12.58; 49.5% female) and their mothers (n = 530) from Medellín, Colombia (n = 88), Naples, Italy (n = 90), Rome, Italy (n = 100) and Durham, North Carolina, United States (African Americans n = 92, European Americans n = 97, and Latinx n = 77). Early adolescent negative emotionality (i.e., anger and sadness experience), self-regulation (i.e., effortful control), and parent monitoring and psychological control were measured at T1. Adolescent internalizing symptoms were measured at three time points. Latent Growth Curve Modeling (LGCM) without covariates or predictors indicated a slight linear increase in internalizing symptoms from ages 13–16 years across nearly all cultural groups. Multi-group LGCMs demonstrated several paths were consistently invariant across groups when examining how well temperament and parenting predicted intercept and slope factors. Higher initial levels of internalizing symptoms were significantly predicted by higher adolescent negative emotionality and parental psychological control as well as lower adolescent effortful control and parental monitoring measured one year earlier. Overall, adolescent effortful control appeared to protect against the emergence of internalizing symptoms in all cultures, but this effect faded over time. This study advances knowledge of the normative development of internalizing symptoms during adolescence across cultures while highlighting the predictive value of early adolescent temperament and parenting.
KW - Adolescence
KW - Effortful control
KW - Emotionality
KW - Internalizing
KW - Parenting
KW - Temperament
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U2 - 10.1007/s00787-021-01725-6
DO - 10.1007/s00787-021-01725-6
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85100667163
JO - European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
JF - European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
SN - 1018-8827
ER -