TY - JOUR
T1 - The Association of Family-Related Adversity With Fighting in Adolescents
T2 - Does Hopelessness Mediate This Association?
AU - Mackova, Jaroslava
AU - Veselska, Zuzana Dankulincova
AU - Geckova, Andrea Madarasova
AU - Jansen, Danielle
AU - van Dijk, Jitse P.
AU - Reijneveld, Sijmen A.
PY - 2021/3/29
Y1 - 2021/3/29
N2 - Objectives: To explore the association of family-related adversities with physical fighting, and whether this association is mediated by hopelessness.Methods: The sample consisted of 3712 Slovak adolescents (mean age: 13.9, 50.7% girls). Participants answered questions regarding experienced family-related adversities, involvement in physical fighting in the last 12 months and the Hopelessness Questionnaire. First, the association of family adversities in general with fighting and of each of family-related adversity separately was assessed using linear regression models and second, mediation was assessed using the a*b product method with bootstrapped 95% confidence intervalsResults: Adolescents who had experienced at least one family adversity reported more frequent fighting. Similarly, each of reported family adversities (death of a parent, substance abuse problems of a parent, conflicts/physical fights, divorce) was associated with more frequent fighting among adolescents. The mediation effect of hopelessness was found in each association of family-related adversity with fighting.Conclusion: These findings suggest that interventions to support adolescents who had experienced family adversities could among other things be directed at better coping with hopelessness.
AB - Objectives: To explore the association of family-related adversities with physical fighting, and whether this association is mediated by hopelessness.Methods: The sample consisted of 3712 Slovak adolescents (mean age: 13.9, 50.7% girls). Participants answered questions regarding experienced family-related adversities, involvement in physical fighting in the last 12 months and the Hopelessness Questionnaire. First, the association of family adversities in general with fighting and of each of family-related adversity separately was assessed using linear regression models and second, mediation was assessed using the a*b product method with bootstrapped 95% confidence intervalsResults: Adolescents who had experienced at least one family adversity reported more frequent fighting. Similarly, each of reported family adversities (death of a parent, substance abuse problems of a parent, conflicts/physical fights, divorce) was associated with more frequent fighting among adolescents. The mediation effect of hopelessness was found in each association of family-related adversity with fighting.Conclusion: These findings suggest that interventions to support adolescents who had experienced family adversities could among other things be directed at better coping with hopelessness.
KW - family-related adversities
KW - fighting
KW - hopelessness
KW - adolescents
KW - HBSC study
U2 - 10.3389/ijph.2021.607199
DO - 10.3389/ijph.2021.607199
M3 - Article
SN - 1661-8556
VL - 66
JO - International Journal of Public Health
JF - International Journal of Public Health
M1 - 607199
ER -