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Personal and contextual factors related to internalizing problems during adolescence
Description
Background
Over the past decades, ample empirical evidence has been collected about
the factors linked to internalizing problems during adolescence. However, there is a lack of
research that use holistic approaches to study the joint analysis of a series of contextual and
personal variables considered to be related to internalizing problems.
Objective
This cross sectional study analyzes the relationship between internalizing
problems during adolescence and a constellation of contextual (parenting and peer rela-
tionships) and personal variables, some of which are linked to the control and regulation of
emotions.
Method
The sample consisted of 2,400 adolescents (1,068 boys and 1,332 girls) between
12 and 17 years of ages, who were selected in twenty secondary schools located in western
Andalusia (Spain). They completed questionnaires in their classrooms.
Results
The results showed significant differences depending on the gender of the par-
ticipant with girls scoring higher than boys in internalizing problems. This gender dif-
ference in the prevalence of problems increased with age. Also, significant relationships
were discovered among most of the personal and contextual variables analyzed and
internalizing problems, both in boys and girls. Our data showed an interesting moderating
effect, because empathy was positively associated with internalizing problems, but only for
girls with low scores on emotional clarity.
Conclusions
The results of this study provide an interesting contribution to the
knowledge of contextual and personal factors regarding internalizing problems during
adolescence. Among contextual protective factors, the importance of parental affection and
attachment to the peer group must be emphasized, while parental psychological control had negative effects. The results also underscore the importance of certain personal variables,
such as risk or protection factors, as well as the moderation relationships established
between some of them, including the moderating effect of emotional clarity on the rela-
tionship between empathy and internalizing problems, although only in the case of girls.
Abstract
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Identifiers
- URL
- https://idus.us.es/handle/11441/40001
- URN
- urn:oai:idus.us.es:11441/40001