Parents relationships, self-steem and depressive symptoms in Young adults. Implications of interparental conflicts, coalition and triangulation

The present study aims to examine the associations between quality of relationships with parents, self-esteem and depressive symptomatology in a sample of 584 Portuguese young adults, 18 to 30 aged. In addition, it intends to test the mediating role of interparental conflict in the association betwe...

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Autor Principal: Pinheiro Mota, Catarina; Universidad de Trás-os_montes e Alto Douro- Vila Real Portugal
Formato: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: spa
Publicado: Pontificia Universidad Javeriana 2014
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Acceso en línea: http://revistas.javeriana.edu.co/index.php/revPsycho/article/view/3013
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Sumario: The present study aims to examine the associations between quality of relationships with parents, self-esteem and depressive symptomatology in a sample of 584 Portuguese young adults, 18 to 30 aged. In addition, it intends to test the mediating role of interparental conflict in the association between quality of the relationship with parents and self-esteem. Evaluation was done through the Network Relationship Inventory, the Children’s Perception of Interparental Conflict Scale, Loyalty Conflict Scale, the Self-Esteem Scale and the Depression Scale. The results indicate that the quality of the relationship with both parents decreases the effect of interparental conflict such as colligation and triangulation in young adults. Interparental conflict plays a mediating role between the quality of mother relationship and self-esteem. The conflicts have a negative effect on depression. Regarding the father relationship, self-esteem plays a meditating role in the association between quality of father relationship and depressive symptomatology. The study emphasizes intervention need in parenting competencies to prevent psychopathology in youth development.