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Toward a Transactional Model of Parent-Adolescent Relationship Quality and Adolescent Psychological Adjustment

Kostas A. Fanti

Georgia State University, Atlanta

Christopher C. Henrich

Georgia State University, Atlanta

Kathryn A. Brookmeyer

Georgia State University, Atlanta

Gabriel P. Kuperminc

Georgia State University, Atlanta

The present study includes externalizing problems, internalizing problems, mother-adolescent relationship quality, and father-adolescent relationship quality in the same structural equation model and tests the longitudinal reciprocal association among all four variables over a 1-year period. A transactional model in which adolescents' internalizing and externalizing problems are negatively related to the quality of adolescents' relationships with their parents and relationship quality is related to internalizing and externalizing problems is hypothesized. Moderation by gender, ethnicity, and parental marital status is also investigated. The sample consists of 246 boys and 253 girls from the sixth and seventh grades of a large public middle school. The study's final model suggests a longitudinal, reciprocal association between the quality of adolescents' relationships with their mothers and internalizing problems. Results suggest longitudinal unidirectional effects from externalizing problems to the quality of adolescents' relationships with their fathers and from the quality of adolescents' relationships with their mothers to externalizing problems.

Key Words: early adolescence • internalizing problems • externalizing problems • parent-adolescent relationship quality • transactional model

This version was published on May 1, 2008

The Journal of Early Adolescence, Vol. 28, No. 2, 252-276 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/0272431607312766
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