Fathers' parenting, adverse life events, and adolescents' emotional and eating disorder symptoms: the role of emotion regulation

Abstract: Purpose: To investigate the role of emotion regulation in the relation between fathers' parenting (specifically warmth, behavioral control and psychological control) and adolescents' emotional and eating disorder symptoms, after adjustment for controls. Methods: A total of 203 11–18 year-old students from a school in a socio-economically disadvantaged area in North-East London completed questionnaires assessing emotional symptoms (measured with the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire’s (SDQ) Emotional Symptoms Scale), eating disorder symptoms (measured with the Eating Attitudes Test (EAT-26)), difficulties in emotion regulation (measured with the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS)), and fathers' overprotection and warmth, measured with the Parental Bonding Instrument (PBI), as well as behavioral and psychological control. The confounding variables considered were number of proximal (i.e., during the last year) adverse life events experienced, gender, age, and soci

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Language
Englisch
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Veröffentlichungsversion
begutachtet (peer reviewed)
In: European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry ; 18 (2008) 4 ; 206-216

Event
Veröffentlichung
(where)
Mannheim
(when)
2008
Creator
McEwen, Ciara
Flouri, Eirini

DOI
10.1007/s00787-008-0719-3
URN
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-122888
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Open Access unbekannt; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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  • McEwen, Ciara
  • Flouri, Eirini

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  • 2008

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