The Mediating Effects of Parentification on the Relation Between Parenting Behavior and Well-Being and Depressive Symptoms in Early Adolescents

Burton, Shelby; Hooper, Lisa M.; Tomek, Sara; Cauley, Bridget; Washington, Ahmad R.; Pössel, Patrick

doi:10.1007/s10826-018-1215-0

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“…The more the adolescents perceived their family roles as unfair, the worse grades at school they had (comp., Jurkovic et al, 2005 ). Accordingly, the more they were satisfied with their family role, the more school achievement they had (comp., Burton et al, 2018 ).…”

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“…On the other hand, constructive parentification may help adolescents learn efficient task management and thus facilitate school achievement or shape tendencies for compulsive overworking to fulfill tasks at home and school. Moreover, culture-specific factors may shape the relation between parentification and its bimodal outcomes (e.g., Gilford and Reynolds, 2010 ; Kuperminc et al, 2013 ; Burton et al, 2018 ).…”

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“…While there are a lack of studies investigating the direct relationship between an adolescent’s general quality of life and parentification, there are studies on parentification in association with constructs that are similar or related to the quality of life (e.g., well-being, life satisfaction, and positive and negative affect). Parenting behavior, including parentification, may predict family member’s well-being ( Burton et al, 2018 ). Parentification is generally negatively related to well-being, but those relations can be differentiated by the type of parentification.…”

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Children who experience parentification may have trouble performing developmental tasks due to being overwhelmed by their family caregiving roles and responsibilities. Past studies have found that parentification is negatively associated with academic achievement. However, most of these studies are limited in that they are retrospective and examine the association but not the mechanisms shaping them. The aim of the study was to explore to what extent diverse types of parentification relate to academic achievement and to what extent these relations are mediated by self-reported quality of life among adolescents. The study sample was composed of Polish early adolescents (N = 191; age: M = 14.61; SD = 1.26). Types of parentification were measured with the Parentification Questionnaire for Youth, and quality of life was assessed with KidScreen27. School achievement was measured based on mean semester grade. We explored the associations among study variables and performed six mediation models in the planned analyses. Overall, bivariate relations were significant in a theoretically expected way, although the effect sizes for these associations were rather small. In the mediation analyses, the results showed that four of the six models were not significant. Different from previous studies, instrumental parentification was positively related to school achievement. Additionally, this positive association was mediated by adolescents’ general quality of life. Taken together, the findings were similar and different from the empirical literature base on types of parentification and select outcomes.

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“…The parent's abdication of their role commonly happens in the following: (a) substance use and dependence, (b) environment or contextual factors (e.g., military culture, poverty) and (c) serious medical condition, (d) guardian's poor parenting skills conditions (Cho & Lee, 2019). Indeed, parentification's positive or negative effects depend on whom the parentification is oriented towards either the parent or the sibling and the nature of those relationships (Burton et al, 2018). In the case that parentification becomes detrimental to the child, it causes the child to develop a strong inclination to take on various caregiving responsibilities.…”

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Parentification Experiences of Filipino Young Professional Daughters During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Parentification refers to parent-child role reversal wherein the child adopts the parent's role instrumentally or emotionally. This role reversal practice between the parent and the child is not uncommon in certain cultures. The cultural dynamics and familial obligations at play have positive and negative outlooks with varying effects. This study focused on the effects of instrumental parentification experiences on psychological resilience and interpersonal relationships among selected Filipino young professional daughters during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using purposive sampling, 19 Filipino young professional daughters from Metro Manila, Philippines, were selected for the study. Online interviews were conducted and thematic analysis was employed to process the data. Findings showed that most of the daughters, with “utang na loob” (indebtedness) value system, wholeheartedly accepted instrumental parentification. Thus, more tasks and responsibilities were shouldered by them due to the COVID-19 lockdown wherein older parents need to stay at home due to the fear of contracting the disease. Almost all shared that the COVID-19 pandemic tested their parent-child relationship. A few expressed that it made them let go of personal growth opportunities and experienced problems with their parents' relationship, given the uncertainties brought by the COVID-19 pandemic. Nevertheless, they shared that they could not leave their ageing parents in this time of COVID-19 pandemic and that with proper balancing of tasks and responsibilities at home and at work, parentification made them to become more self-reliant, mature faster, and responsible daughters.

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“…Third, parentification may be viewed in light of its consequences. A situation which goes beyond the child's capabilities (e.g., emotional and physical capacities) and exhausts resources that foretell numerous negative consequences such as anxiety, depression, personality disorders, and eating disorders (Arellano et al, 2018;Burton et al, 2018;Hooper et al, 2011), use of psychoactive substances (Chase et al, 1998;Dragan & Hardt, 2016), difficulties in relationships (Shaffer & Madden, 2016), poor academic performance (Burton, 2007;Chase et al, 1998;Siskowski, 2006), and poor parenting skills as an adult (Nuttall et al, 2019). In some circumstances, however, parentification may be beneficial.…”

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Parentification in Polish Adolescents: a Prevalence Study

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This study investigated the prevalence of parentification in a nationwide cross-sectional study. There were N = 47,984 Polish adolescents aged 12–21 (M = 15.60; SD = 1.98; female 52.7%, male 47.3%). The results indicated that more adolescents experienced emotional parentification (toward parents 35.9%; toward siblings 25.2%) as compared to instrumental parentification (toward parents 7.2%; toward siblings 15.5%), which is noteworthy, since emotional parentification is the most detrimental form of parentification in USA samples. Overall, 15.5% of the participants reported a sense of injustice related to their family caregiving roles and 61.2% reported satisfaction related to their family caregiving roles. The results are important given the dearth of prevalence studies.

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The Mediating Effects of Parentification on the Relation Between Parenting Behavior and Well-Being and Depressive Symptoms in Early Adolescents

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The Relations Among Types of Parentification, School Achievement, and Quality of Life in Early Adolescence: An Exploratory Study

The Relations Among Types of Parentification, School Achievement, and Quality of Life in Early Adolescence: An Exploratory Study

Parentification Experiences of Filipino Young Professional Daughters During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Parentification in Polish Adolescents: a Prevalence Study

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