Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.5559/di.21.2.05
Mediating Role of Emotional Regulation between Parental Behavior and Adjustment of Early Adolescents
Ivana MACUKA
orcid.org/0000-0002-8753-8991
; University of Zadar, Zadar
Sanja SMOJVER-AŽIĆ
; Faculty of Arts and Science, Rijeka
Irena BURIĆ
; University of Zadar, Zadar
Abstract
The aim of this study was to examine the relationships
between parental behavior of both parents, and emotional
regulation and internalizing and externalizing problems of
young adolescents. Specifically, the mediating role of
emotional regulation in relation between parental behavior
and adjustment of young adolescents, were tested. The study
was conducted on a sample of 261 subjects (139 girls and
122 boys), average age of 13 years. Using path analysis,
direct and indirect effects (via emotional regulation) of
parental behavior on internalizing and externalizing
problems were examined. The results indicate that emotional
regulation fully mediated the associations between
internalizing problems and children's perceptions of maternal
acceptance, paternal rejection and control. Furthermore,
emotional regulation partially mediated the relationship
between internalizing problems and paternal acceptance.
Children's perceptions of maternal control and paternal
acceptance had direct effects on internalizing problems, and
externalizing problems were directly related to perception of
maternal control and acceptance, as well as paternal
acceptance.
Keywords
emotional regulation; internalizing and externalizing problems; parental behavior; early adolescence
Hrčak ID:
84535
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Publication date:
1.4.2012.
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