TY - JOUR
T1 - Cross-national associations between parent and peer communication and psychological complaints
AU - Moreno, Carmen
AU - Sánchez-Queija, Inmaculada
AU - Muñoz-Tinoco, Victoria
AU - de Matos, Margarida Gaspar
AU - Dallago, Lorenza
AU - Bogt, Tom Ter
AU - Camacho, Inês
AU - Rivera, Francisco
AU - Vasileva, Lidiya
AU - Hafthorsson, Atli
AU - Gudmundsson, Birgir
AU - Santinello, Massimo
AU - Lenzi, Michela
AU - Kostarova Unkovska, Lina
AU - Leversen, Ingrid
AU - Skogbrott Birkeland, Marianne
AU - Tomé, Gina
AU - Ferreira, Mafalda
AU - Smith, Rebecca
AU - van der Sluijs, Winfried
AU - Queija, Inmaculada
AU - Pérez Moreno, Pedro J.
AU - Kuntsche, Emmanuel
AU - Kaymak, Deniz Albayrak
AU - Bondar, Tatyana
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Objectives: To assess whether or not communication with parents and with peers is related to experiencing psychological complaints in an attempt to explore the hypotheses of continuity and compensation or moderation between contexts. Methods: Questions on communication with their parents and peers, as well as on the frequency with which they experience psychological complaints were answered by 200,857 adolescents from 36 countries. Results: A cluster analysis detected four groups of adolescents. Those with better communication in both social contexts were the ones showing less psychological complaints. Moreover, we have found (using a regression analysis) that good communication with peers does not improve their experience of psychological complaints if the communication with parents is not good. Conclusions: We conclude that our findings are consistent with the continuity hypothesis and against the compensating or moderating one.
AB - Objectives: To assess whether or not communication with parents and with peers is related to experiencing psychological complaints in an attempt to explore the hypotheses of continuity and compensation or moderation between contexts. Methods: Questions on communication with their parents and peers, as well as on the frequency with which they experience psychological complaints were answered by 200,857 adolescents from 36 countries. Results: A cluster analysis detected four groups of adolescents. Those with better communication in both social contexts were the ones showing less psychological complaints. Moreover, we have found (using a regression analysis) that good communication with peers does not improve their experience of psychological complaints if the communication with parents is not good. Conclusions: We conclude that our findings are consistent with the continuity hypothesis and against the compensating or moderating one.
KW - Adolescent adjustment
KW - Cross-cultural research
KW - Family communication
KW - Family-peers relationships
KW - Peers communication
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U2 - 10.1007/s00038-009-5415-7
DO - 10.1007/s00038-009-5415-7
M3 - Article
C2 - 19639255
AN - SCOPUS:69249215234
SN - 1661-8556
VL - 54
SP - S235-S242
JO - International Journal of Public Health
JF - International Journal of Public Health
IS - SUPPL. 2
ER -