The mediating role of adolescent self-efficacy in the relationship between parental practices and adolescent alcohol use

Parental Involvement and Adolescents' Diabetes Management: The Mediating Role of Self-Efficacy and Externalizing and Internalizing Behaviors

“…These results point to self-efficacy as an important benefit associated with a high quality parent-adolescent relationship, a factor that may be especially crucial for young adolescents who are beginning to manage their diabetes more independently from their parents. The importance of self-efficacy in mediating the role of positive parental involvement on other health risk behaviors such as drug use (Watkins et al, 2006) suggests that self-efficacy may be important not only across adolescence but beyond in emerging adulthood.…”

Protecting and Promoting: An Integrative Conceptual Model for Healthy Development of Adolescents

“…For example, parental monitoring and involvement (structural domain), family communication, school engagement (educational domain), and hope (cognitive domain) increase the likelihood of adolescent positive health behaviors [107]. Self-efficacy (emotional domain) has been found to act as a mediator between parental monitoring and adolescent alcohol use [108]. Emotion regulation (physiological domain) also has critical implications for adolescent health, affecting related behaviors such as judgment, decision-making, sensation-seeking, and risk-taking [88,109], as well as directly predicting specific health outcomes such as sexual risk-taking [110].…”

Self‐efficacy as a moderator of negative and positive self‐fulfilling prophecy effects: mothers' beliefs and children's alcohol use

“…Self-efficacy is believed to originate from performance accomplishments (e.g., personal experiences), vicarious experiences (e.g., observational learning), verbal persuasion (e.g., encouragement from others), and emotional arousal (e.g., anxiety ;Bandura, 1977, p. 80; also see Bandura, 1997). Research suggests that children's self-efficacy to refuse alcohol from peers stems, in large part, from factors associated with the family such as parental monitoring, quality of the parent-child relationship, number of parents who drink alcohol in the home, and parental disapproval of alcohol use (Boyd, Ashcraft, & Belgrave, 2006;Li, Pentz, & Chou, 2002;Nash, McQueen, & Bray, 2005;Watkins, Howard-Barr, Moore, & Werch, 2006). Moreover, self-efficacy has been shown to influence motivation and behavioral outcomes (Bandura & Locke, 2003).…”

“…Third, our measure of global parenting, which mediated mothers' self-fulfilling effects, included some of the factors shown by prior research to shape children's self-efficacy, including parental monitoring and the affective quality of the parent-child relationship (Boyd et al, 2006;Watkins et al, 2006). Consistent with those prior findings, our data also showed a significant correlation between mothers' global parenting and children's self-efficacy (Table 1), thereby raising the possibility that some of the factors that shape children's self-efficacy, such as parenting, may also mediate mothers' self-fulfilling effects on their children's alcohol use.…”