TY - JOUR
T1 - The relationship between family climate and identity development processes
T2 - the moderating role of developmental stages and outcomes
AU - Prioste, Ana
AU - Tavares, Petra
AU - Silva, Carla Sofia
AU - Magalhães, Eunice
N1 - Funding Information:
All procedures performed in this study were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. The research project was approved by the Ethics and Deontology Committee on Scientific Research (CEDIC) of the Escola de Psicologia e Ciências da Vida—Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias. Informed consent: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study. Publisher’s note Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations.
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PY - 2020/6/1
Y1 - 2020/6/1
N2 - Objectives: This study aimed to analyze the relationship between family climate and identity development, and the moderating role of the development stage and (in)adaptive outcomes in that relationship. Methods: A cross-sectional quantitative study was developed with 387 participants (65.4% female; 162 adolescents aged between 15–19 years and 225 emerging adults aged between 20–25 years). Data was collected using self-reported measures: Sociodemographic questionnaire, Dimensions of Identity Development Scale, Brief Symptom Inventory and Family Climate Inventory. Results: The results of structural equation modeling showed moderating effects of developmental stage (Δχ2 (38) = 93.47, p = 0.009) and outcomes (Δχ2 (38) = 63.50, p = 0.006) in the relationship between family climate and identity development, suggesting that family cohesion predicted identity outcomes differently for adolescents and emerging adults, as well as for participants with adaptive and non-adaptive developmental trajectories. Also, family conflict predicted identity formation outcomes differently in function of developmental outcomes. Conclusions: As high levels of family conflict and cohesion are associated to higher levels of exploration in depth, future studies should focus on enmeshed family interactional patterns and its outcomes on children across development. Our data highlights the role of family climate on the identity development in adolescence and emerging adulthood and the importance of analyzing family risk and protection factors as conditions for individual developmental outcomes.
AB - Objectives: This study aimed to analyze the relationship between family climate and identity development, and the moderating role of the development stage and (in)adaptive outcomes in that relationship. Methods: A cross-sectional quantitative study was developed with 387 participants (65.4% female; 162 adolescents aged between 15–19 years and 225 emerging adults aged between 20–25 years). Data was collected using self-reported measures: Sociodemographic questionnaire, Dimensions of Identity Development Scale, Brief Symptom Inventory and Family Climate Inventory. Results: The results of structural equation modeling showed moderating effects of developmental stage (Δχ2 (38) = 93.47, p = 0.009) and outcomes (Δχ2 (38) = 63.50, p = 0.006) in the relationship between family climate and identity development, suggesting that family cohesion predicted identity outcomes differently for adolescents and emerging adults, as well as for participants with adaptive and non-adaptive developmental trajectories. Also, family conflict predicted identity formation outcomes differently in function of developmental outcomes. Conclusions: As high levels of family conflict and cohesion are associated to higher levels of exploration in depth, future studies should focus on enmeshed family interactional patterns and its outcomes on children across development. Our data highlights the role of family climate on the identity development in adolescence and emerging adulthood and the importance of analyzing family risk and protection factors as conditions for individual developmental outcomes.
KW - Adolescence
KW - Developmental outcomes
KW - Emerging adults
KW - Family climate
KW - Identity development
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U2 - 10.1007/s10826-019-01600-8
DO - 10.1007/s10826-019-01600-8
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85074011924
SN - 1062-1024
VL - 29
SP - 1525
EP - 1536
JO - Journal of Child and Family Studies
JF - Journal of Child and Family Studies
IS - 6
ER -