Interconnected Accumulation of Life Stresses and Adolescent Maladjustment
By Kee Jeong Kim, Ph.D.
The Prevention Researcher,
Volume 12, Number 3, 2005, Pages 13-16, Item# A123-KIM
The present study tested a reciprocal causation hypothesis. From this perspective, life stressors were hypothesized to increase adolescent emotional distress and delinquent behaviors, and these dimensions of maladjustment would lead to increasing life stress.
Data were collected from 451 intact Caucasian families over a period of 6 years, starting when the adolescents were in seventh grade and ending when they were in twelfth grade. Results were consistent with the reciprocal causation hypothesis.
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Teen Stress
The Prevention Researcher,
Volume 12, Number 3, 2005
Adolescence can be a challenging time with youth experiencing biological, psychological, and social changes. Both normative stressors (such as moving from middle school to high school), as well as non-normative stressors (such as parental divorce) have been linked to an increased risk of such internalizing behaviors as depression and anxiety. This issue includes articles on the relationship between stress and at-risk behaviors, stress and culturally diverse youth, and various coping mechanisms.
This issue also featured these articles:
- • Adolescent Stress: The Relationship Between Stress and Mental Health Problems, Pages 3-6
- • Coping with Stress: Implications for Preventive Interventions with Adolescents, Pages 17-20
- • Interconnected Accumulation of Life Stresses and Adolescent Maladjustment, Pages 13-16
- • Minority Adolescent Stress and Coping, Pages 7-9
- • Perceptions of Threat: Understanding Pathways Between Stress and Health in Adolescents, Pages 10-12
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