The Family System and Depressive Symptoms during the College Years: Triangulation, Parental Differential Treatment, and Sibling Warmth as Predictors

Ponappa, Sujata; Bartle‐Haring, Suzanne; Holowacz, Eugene; Ferriby, Megan

doi:10.1111/jmft.12175

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“…Although some evidence shows that differentiated parental treatment can have negative consequences on young people [20,21], this study shows that in young women the extreme hostility of the mother decreases the appreciation for life and stress management-On the other hand, these dimensions improve with the warmth of the mother. These results are very much in line with a study that found out that low parental warmth is associated with bulimic behaviour [27].…”

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“…Although this association is observed when children are treated differently by both the father and the mother, said association is mediated by cultural socialization when the father treats differently [20]. for both siblings, the perception of differences in parenting diminishes the warmth between siblings, while higher warmth between siblings is associated with lower depressive symptoms [21].…”

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Family cohesion and a father's warmth are related to the positive lifestyles of female university students

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One of the main strategies that healthy universities implement among their students is that of promoting healthy lifestyles. However, behind these healthy lifestyles, there may be some aspects related to family functioning that favour or limit its implementation. consequently, the objective of this study is to establish whether there is a relationship between lifestyles and family cohesion, family ethnic socialization and the affective behaviour of the father and the mother. A cross-sectional study was conducted with a representative sample of 159 female university students from an indigenous area of Oaxaca, Mexico. The Healthy Lifestyle Scale for University Students, the Self-Assessment Scale of Affective Behaviour (with regard to the father and the mother) and the family cohesion Scale were used. family ethnic socialization revealed a significant interrelationship with lifestyles in all ethnic groups. However, these scores were higher in the indigenous groups. Although the moderate hostility from the father did not show any relationship with lifestyles in either ethnic group, the scores for hostility from the father were higher in indigenous groups than in the mestizo group. A multivariate analysis confirmed better lifestyles when better family cohesion and greater warmth of the father were observed.

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Family cohesion and a father's warmth are related to the positive lifestyles of female university students

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“…For example, a father may downplay his worry about symptoms in his EA offspring, in reaction to the mother’s degree of distress or worry. The mother may hold a more hyperattentive focus on her offspring’s symptoms, in reaction to the father’s downplaying of any concern (see also Ponappa, Bartle‐Haring, Holowacz, & Ferriby, 2017).…”

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Differentiation of Self and Mental Health Symptoms in Emerging Adulthood in Australia: The Role of Parenting Behaviours

Piteo

MacKay

2021

ANZ J of Family Therapy

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To date, limited research has been undertaken regarding the interplay between differentiation of self (DoS), parental involvement, and the prevalence of psychological symptoms in emerging adults (EA) aged between 18 and 25 years in Australia. The current study aims to assess whether there is an association between mental health symptoms, perceptions of parental warmth, involvement, and autonomy support and indicators of DoS, including self‐regulation capacity and emotional reactivity. In a study of 129 undergraduate students aged between 18 and 30 years, greater DoS, involving both lower emotional reactivity and the ability to take an ‘I position’ in relation to others, was found to be associated with fewer depressive and anxiety symptoms in EA. In addition, EA who demonstrated lower levels of emotional reactivity (higher DoS) had lower scores in depressive and anxiety symptoms. Parenting variables of caregiver warmth and autonomy granting were also found to be related to lower depressive and anxiety symptoms as well as greater DoS in EA. Regression models show that there were main effects for DoS on depressive symptoms; however, parenting behaviours were not found to moderate this relationship. Overall, this research is important as it supports Bowen’s (1978) theorising in relation to the relationship between DoS and mental health, and consideration of the contribution of parenting variables to indicators of well‐being in EA. In this, family therapy has a role in educating both young adults and their parents in how best to promote independence and autonomy for improved psychological health. Further research should focus on the complexity of parenting controlling behaviours on mental health symptoms in EA.

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“…Depression was specifically associated with triangulation during childhood (e.g., Wang & Crane, 2001), adolescence (e.g., Buchanan et al, 1991, Buehler et al, 2009, Grych, Raynor, & Fosco, 2004), and youth (e.g., Ponappa, Bartle‐Haring, Holowacz, & Ferriby, 2017; Sabatelli & Anderson, 1991). Among other detrimental consequences, Krieg associated triangulation with children's increased self‐blame for their parents' spousal distress.…”

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Triangulated children's reality: Medical model's concealing effect versus family systems' revealing effect

Neophytou

Rodríguez‐González

2020

Syst Res Behav Sci

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Arguably, the medical model's narrative achieved an iconic mental health status eulogized within our evidence‐based era. Despite Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders' atheoretical pretensions, we attempt to shed light and critically challenge its dogmatic mental health presumptions through a family systems perspective. Specifically, our critical study of a fictitious vignette attempts to expose how the medical model's systematic de‐emphasis of familial environments directs clinicians away from the true source of triangulated children's distress, an attention shift that may result in unintentionally perpetuating children's psychological turmoil. Alternatively, we attempt to delineate how the system paradigm may holistically account for children's familial emotional environments, thereby potentially attributing their psychological distress to its true, yet concealed, familial dysfunction. In essence, we argue that the medical model seems to operate within a decontextualized restricted disease‐carrier‐child mind frame, hence potentially ascribing faux diagnoses and false medical treatments to healthy children.

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The Family System and Depressive Symptoms during the College Years: Triangulation, Parental Differential Treatment, and Sibling Warmth as Predictors

Cited by 22 publications

References 49 publications

Family cohesion and a father's warmth are related to the positive lifestyles of female university students

Family cohesion and a father's warmth are related to the positive lifestyles of female university students

Differentiation of Self and Mental Health Symptoms in Emerging Adulthood in Australia: The Role of Parenting Behaviours

Triangulated children's reality: Medical model's concealing effect versus family systems' revealing effect

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