Mental Health Outcomes of Youth In-Care: Investigating the Effect of General Strain and Self-control Theories

Cullen, Greggory J.; Yule, Carolyn; Walters, David; O’Grady, William

doi:10.1007/s10560-021-00748-x

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“…Tessier, O’Higgins and Flynn (2018) used a sample of 2,052 youth (aged 12–18) drawn from the 2010–2011 Ontario Looking After Children (OnLAC) project and concluded that better educational outcomes are associated with young people’s educational aspirations, caregiver educational aspirations, time with current caregiver, internal developmental assets and PMH. More recently, Cullen and colleagues (2021) used a sample of 1,419 youth in care in Ontario and found having lower levels of self-control, experiencing multiple placement changes, group home placement and being female are associated with lower PMH. As such, these researchers emphasised the importance of developing programmes and strategies that focus on increasing the PMH of youth in care as a means of improving their future outcomes.…”

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Supporting older youth in care: The role of caregivers

Cullen

2024

Adoption & Fostering

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Adolescents living in care are vulnerable to a range of negative outcomes. Although the mental health and substance use problems of foster youth are widely documented, significantly less research examines the influence of caregivers on these two dimensions of health and wellbeing. Given the importance of caregivers to the development of adolescents in child welfare, the present study investigates the relationship between caregiver characteristics, caregiver attachment and placement type on mental health and substance use. The sample consists of 1,093 young people taken from the 2016 Ontario Looking After Children project who are between 16 and 17 years of age. Findings suggest that caregiver attachment, caregiver gender and the caregiver’s school expectations are all significantly associated with mental health and substance use among this population. Results will inform child welfare professionals about a number of risk-predictive factors of mental health and substance use problems among a sample of young people preparing to transition to adulthood. These findings will help service providers design policies and intervention strategies to improve the future outcomes of youth involved in child welfare.

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Supporting older youth in care: The role of caregivers

Cullen

2024

Adoption & Fostering

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“…De ned as an individual's capacity to inhibit dominant responses and activate subdominant ones, including the ability to mobilize executive attention and regulate response tendencies [17], effortful control plays a signi cant role in an individual's psychosocial adaptation [18]. According to self-control theory [19], family risk factors can in uence an individual's behavioral development by impacting their self-control abilities. Effortful control, a component of self-control [20], is susceptible to the effects of family risk factors, such as parental con ict.…”

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Cumulative Family Risk and Non-Suicidal Self-Injury among Chinese Adolescents: A Longitudinal Moderated Mediation Model

Xu,

Yang,

Guo

2024

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Background This study aims to investigate the longitudinal relationship and underlying mechanism of cumulative family risk on Chinese adolescents’ non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI). Methods A total of 891 adolescents participated in a follow-up study with a 12-month interval, during which the Cumulative Family Risk Questionnaire, Effortful Control Scale, Zhong-Yong Thinking Style Scale, and Non-Suicidal Self-Injury Scale were administered. Result The results indicated that: (1) cumulative family risk significantly and positively predicted NSSI in adolescents; (2) effortful control longitudinally mediated the relationship between cumulative family risk and NSSI among adolescents; and (3) the direct effect of cumulative family risk on NSSI in adolescents, as well as the initial phase of the mediating effect of effortful control, were moderated by Zhong-Yong thinking style. Furthermore, both the direct and indirect effects were moderated by Zhong-Yong thinking style, particularly in Chinese adolescents with low levels of Zhong-Yong thinking style, where the effects were weaker. Conclusion This study sheds light on the relationship between cumulative family risk, effortful control, and NSSI in Chinese adolescents, highlighting the moderating role of Zhong-Yong thinking style. These findings provide empirical support for the development of preventive strategies aimed at addressing NSSI among Chinese adolescents in the future.

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“…Estas podem ser legítimas (socialmente adequadas ou pró-sociais) ou ilegítimas (antissociais). Ou seja, infringir normas / praticar atos antissociais seriam uma forma de enfrentamento (Agnew et al, 2000;Cullen et al, 2022;Froggio, 2007). É certo que a TGT rejeita uma relação linear e causal entre tensão, emoção negativa e um desfecho/ resposta específica.…”

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“…A maioria das pessoas possui recursos para lidar de forma convencional com situações/ condições estressantes, porque conta com recursos pessoais e/ou sociais que moderam as relações entre estresse, emoções negativas e coping (Agnew, 2015;Cullen et al, 2022). No plano pessoal, por exemplo, destaca-se o nível de autocontrole alcançado.…”

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Ato Infracional na Adolescência: Revisão Integrativa dos Estudos na Perspectiva da Teoria Geral da Tensão

O. Caetano,

R. Bazon

2023

Cad. Psic.

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The General Strain Theory (GST) argues that situations/circumstances likely to generate tension foster negative emotions which, in turn, may create conditions for adolescents to manifest antisocial behaviors/offences as a coping strategy and/or as a way to relieve tension. An integrative literature review was conducted, with the objective of systematising and synthesising findings of studies, based on the GST, published in the last 11 years, aiming to circumscribe the contributions of this referential. The search was conducted on the Academic Search Premier, Web of Science and PsycINFO, with the keywords “General Strain Theory” AND “Juvenile delinquency”. To include the study into the review, the criterias were to have: (1) adolescents as target audience; (2) outcome variable “offences”; (3) GST as referential; (4) and being empirical. Fifty-four studies were selected. The results were organized into the following categories: (a) Sources of tension (events/situations likely to generate tensions, linked to the structure/functioning of society, community characteristics, school and family, linked significantly to involvement in offending, but also to other outcomes); (b) The different sources of tension by gender (in parallel with the common sources: romantic break-ups, financial stress and criminal victimisation); (c) Mediators and Moderators (anger, as predicted by the GST, is the main mediator; strong social bonds and positive family relationships stand out as moderators). The GST contributes by shedding light on the various sources of tension that permeate adolescent development and on the subjective dimension of emotions that may underlie the involvement of youth in offending. However, the relationships between tension and offending must be critically interpreted.Keywords: General Strain Theory, infractions, adolescence, emotions, literature review

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Mental Health Outcomes of Youth In-Care: Investigating the Effect of General Strain and Self-control Theories

Cited by 4 publications

References 60 publications

Supporting older youth in care: The role of caregivers

Supporting older youth in care: The role of caregivers

Cumulative Family Risk and Non-Suicidal Self-Injury among Chinese Adolescents: A Longitudinal Moderated Mediation Model

Ato Infracional na Adolescência: Revisão Integrativa dos Estudos na Perspectiva da Teoria Geral da Tensão

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