Psychological Development and Education ›› 2015, Vol. 31 ›› Issue (2): 204-211.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2015.02.10

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The Stability of Internalizing Problem and Its Relation to Maternal Parenting during Early Adolescence

XU Fuzhen1, ZHANG Lingling2, WEI Xing1, ZHANG Wenxin1, CHEN Liang1, JI Linqin1, CHEN Xinyin3   

  1. 1. School of Psychology, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250014, China;
    2. Shandong Teaching and Research Office, Jinan 250002, China;
    3. Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA 19104-6216, USA
  • Online:2015-03-15 Published:2015-03-15

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Abstract: Early adolescence is a particularly vulnerable period of internalizing problem. Internalizing problem during early adolescence frequently would persist into the whole adolescence and adulthood, resulting in poor prognosis and increasing the risk of education, unemployment and other antisocial behaviors in the future. Existing researches reported that internalizing problem in early adolescence were associated with maternal parenting, and many researchers have found that adolescents' previous developmental characteristics could influence the manner in which mother treated them. This longitudinal study was to examine the stability of adolescent's internalizing problem and the prediction of maternal parenting, on one hand, and gender differences, on the other hand. A total of 502 young adolescents (252 for boys and 250 for girls), 11-year-olds filled out the Youth Self-Report about internalizing problem subscale and their mothers finished questionnaire about their parenting style at two times (T1/T2) within a 1-year interval. Results were as follows: Young adolescents tended to maintain a high level of stability of internalizing problem, and girls reported higher level of internalizing problem than boys. Maternal parenting of supervision-discipline at T1 could predict a significant increase in adolescents' internalizing problem at T2 for boys, but this wasn't the case for girls. Previous level of early adolescents' internalizing problem could moderate the prediction of maternal warmth-conduct and supervision-discipline on the following internalizing problem. Specifically, as for boys with higher level of internalizing problem, their mothers' warmth-conduct and supervision-discipline could predict a significant increase in internalizing problem one year later. Conversely, for girls with higher level of internalizing problem, their mothers' warmth-conduct could predict a significant decrease. When it comes to those adolescents with lower level of internalizing problem, their mothers' warmth-conduct and supervision-discipline couldn't predict significantly the following outcome. Based on self-report and mother-report data, the shared method variance could be avoided. But our sample was a bit homogenous, consisting of mostly adolescents from high level of family socioeconomic status. So the results should be re-tested in other samples with different family context.

Key words: early adolescence, internalizing problem, maternal parenting, stability

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