Abstract
This study examined the longitudinal relations of participants' self-reported ego-resiliency to internalize and externalize behavioural problems during the early adulthood. Participants were divided in two cohorts: 144 young adults (59.7% of females; mean age of 20 years at Time 1—T1 and 28 years at Time 3) were included in the first cohort and 119 young adults (48.7% of females; mean age of 21 years at T1 and 29 years at Time 4) were included in the second cohort. In a panel structural equation model controlling for stability of the constructs, we found that ego-resiliency predicted internalizing problems, and near significantly predicted externalizing problems, during the period of young adulthood. The posited conceptual model accounted for a significant portion of variance in the considered variables and has implications for interventions designed to promote and sustain ego-resiliency to counteract behavioural problems.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 220-233 |
Number of pages | 14 |
Journal | European Journal of Developmental Psychology |
Volume | 12 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Mar 4 2015 |
Keywords
- Autoregressive cross-lagged model
- Behavioural problems
- Early adulthood
- Ego-resiliency
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Social Psychology
- Developmental and Educational Psychology