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The relationship between parenting attitudes, negative cognition, and the depressive symptoms according to gender in Korean adolescents
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- Issue Date
- 2016-04-27
- Publisher
- BioMed Central
- Citation
- International Journal of Mental Health Systems, 10(1):35
- Keywords
- Parenting ; Depression ; Negative cognition ; Adolescents
- Abstract
- Background
Parenting style is one potential contributor to the development of adolescents cognitions, self-esteem and emotional problems. This study examined the relationship between maternal parenting attitudes and adolescents negative cognitions, and depressive symptoms according to gender.
Methods
A total of 401 middle and high school students were recruited (i.e. 221 males and 180 females; mean age, 13.92±1.31years). The Maternal Behavior Research Instrument assessed maternal parenting attitudes. Analyses examined the relationship between parenting attitudes and affective symptoms, with self-esteem and negative automatic thoughts as mediators of these relations.
Results
Maternal rejecting attitudes were positively associated with depressive symptoms via increasing negative autonomic thoughts and decreasing self-esteem among female adolescents. Among male adolescents, maternal rejecting attitudes were associated with low self-esteem, but they were not associated with depressive symptoms.
Conclusions
Maternal parenting has a larger impact on the emotional adjustment of females compared to males. Interventions to increase self-esteem and correct negative cognitions may be helpful for depressed female adolescents, specifically for those whose mothers are rejecting.
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- English
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