Family Financial Hardship and Adolescent Girls' Adjustment: The Role of Maternal Disclosure of Financial Concerns

Lehman, Stephanie Jacobs; Koerner, Susan Silverberg

doi:10.1353/mpq.2002.0003

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“…This finding is also consistent with previous research that income poverty is associated with food insecurity (Poppendieck 1997), parental mental health (Conger et al 1992;McLoyd 1990), and adolescents' adjustment problems (Lehman and Koerner 2002;McLoyd and Wilson 1992). For example, adolescents' awareness of family economic hardship makes adolescents feel overburdened with responsibility for their family's needs (Bassoff 1987;Lehman and Koerner 2002), and engenders adjustment problems (e.g., Bassoff 1987;Lehman and Koerner 2002). A corollary finding is that the effects of SES are mediated through food insecurity, which points to the importance of the potential ameliorating effect of food assistance programs.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 92%

Food Insecurity and Adjustment Problems in a National Sample of Adolescents1

Ashiabi¹,

O'Neal²

2007

Journal of Children and Poverty

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This study examined a structural equation model of the associations among food insecurity, parental emotional distress, quality of parenting, and adolescents' adjustment problems, controlling for socioeconomic status (SES), sex, and race/ethnicity. Additionally, we examined the relative effects of food insecurity, SES, parental emotional distress, and quality of parenting on adjustment problems. A sample of 11,139 12 Á17-year-olds selected from the 2002 National Survey of American Families data set were used. The results revealed the following: first, the model exhibited a reasonable fit to the data. Second, heightened food insecurity was associated with increased parental emotional distress, poor quality of parenting, and increased adjustment problems. Third, increased parental emotional distress was associated with poor quality of parenting and with higher levels of adjustment problems; and better quality of parenting was associated with lower levels of adjustment problems. Fourth, food insecurity had an indirect effect on adjustment problems through its effect on parental emotional distress and quality of parenting. Finally, parental emotional distress and quality of parenting had stronger total effects on adjustment problems than did food insecurity. The implications of these findings for policy are also discussed.

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confidence: 92%

Food Insecurity and Adjustment Problems in a National Sample of Adolescents1

Ashiabi¹,

O'Neal²

2007

Journal of Children and Poverty

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“…This finding differs from research that recognizes the mother's second marriage as a decisive factor contributing to the children's economic situation (Morrison and Ritualno 2000). Mothers have been found to share their financial hardship with adolescent daughters (Lechman and Koerner 2002), increasing the daughters' sense of helplessness and depression. In this study, it appears that both daughters and sons were equally involved in the family's financial situation and tried to contribute to the family's income.…”

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confidence: 87%

Money Matters: Young Adults’ Perception of the Economic Consequences of their Parents’ Divorce

2007

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“…However, children might also suffer indirect effects when the disclosures encourage role burdens and parentification or situations in which adolescents assume too much of a parental role in the family (Alexander, 2003;Jurkovic, Thirkeild, & Morrell, 2001). Lehman and Koerner (2002) found that negative disclosures often propel children to worry about their parents. Additionally, Wallerstein (1985) noted that adolescents who serve as emotional supporters for their parents are often more worried about their parents than are adolescents who do not serve their parents in this function.…”

Section: Overall Impact In Divorced and Nondivorced Familiesmentioning

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Adolescents' Physiological Reactions to Their Parents' Negative Disclosures About the Other Parent in Divorced and Nondivorced Families

Afifi

Coho

2009

Journal of Divorce & Remarriage

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The purpose of this study was to determine how adolescents in divorced and nondivorced families respond psychologically and physiologically to their parents' negative disclosures when talking about their parents' relationship. The study also investigated how parents respond to their own disclosures about their relationship with the other parent. In general, the results illustrate the important role that adolescents' feelings of being caught can contribute to their well-being. The findings also supported the hypothesis that the valence of parental disclosures was a more important consideration than its frequency in the understanding of adolescents' reactions to their parents' disclosures, especially for adolescents from divorced families. Disclosure valence was also associated with parental anxiety, such that disclosure negativity predicted elevations in parents' anxiety during the discussion. Ultimately, children from divorced families who already felt caught between their parents and whose parents tended to disclose negative information about the other parent to them were more likely than other adolescents to report feeling anxious during that conversation. The results for changes in physiological arousal were not significant and were not consistent with the results for self-reported anxiety.

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Family Financial Hardship and Adolescent Girls' Adjustment: The Role of Maternal Disclosure of Financial Concerns

Cited by 28 publications

References 54 publications

Food Insecurity and Adjustment Problems in a National Sample of Adolescents1

Food Insecurity and Adjustment Problems in a National Sample of Adolescents1

Money Matters: Young Adults’ Perception of the Economic Consequences of their Parents’ Divorce

Adolescents' Physiological Reactions to Their Parents' Negative Disclosures About the Other Parent in Divorced and Nondivorced Families

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