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Financiële stress van ouders en externaliserend probleemgedrag van adolescenten: De mediërende rol van depressieve gevoelens en opvoeding

Financial stress of parents and externalising problem behaviour in adolescents: the medating role of depressive feelings and parenting

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In dit artikel onderzoeken we de mediërende rol van depressieve gevoelens, positief ouderlijk gedrag en negatieve gedragscontrole in de relatie tussen financiële stress die beide ouders ervaren en externaliserend probleemgedrag van adolescenten. Door gebruik te maken van een actor-partnerbenadering onderzoeken we (a) effecten bij ouders (actoreffecten) en tussen ouders (partnereffecten), en (b) in welke mate deze actor- en partnereffecten verschillend zijn voor moeders en vaders. Gegevens van 340 Vlaamse gezinnen met een 11- tot 17-jarige adolescent werden geanalyseerd.

Structurele vergelijkingsmodellen tonen aan dat de samenhang tussen financiële stress en het probleemgedrag van adolescenten gemedieerd wordt door opeenvolgend depressieve gevoelens en opvoedingsgedragingen. Verder blijkt dat het positieve ouderlijk gedrag van vaders meer beïnvloed wordt door financiële stress dan dat van moeders. Behalve verschillende actoreffecten werden er ook partnereffecten gevonden tussen depressieve gevoelens en negatieve gedragscontrole.

Abstract

In this study, we examined the association between financial stress, depressive feelings, positive parenting, negative behavioural control and problem behaviour in adolescents to improve our understanding of processes by which financial stress is associated with adolescents’ externalising problem behaviour. Using an actor-partner interdependence approach, we explored pathways within (actor) and between (partner) parents and examined whether the strength of the pathways differed between mothers and fathers. Data were drawn from 340 two-parent families with an adolescent aged between 11 to 17 years old.

Using structural equation modelling, we found that the association between financial stress and problem behaviour in adolescents was mediated by depressive feelings and parenting. Our results further suggest that family stress processes are to some extent gender specific: positive parenting of fathers was more affected by financial stress than that of mothers. Besides several actor effects, partner effects were also present between depressive feelings and negative behavioural control.

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De auteurs willen graag Bea Cantillon, Tanja Nuelant en Véronique Vancoppenolle danken voor hun steun en vertrouwen tijdens dit onderzoek.

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  1. Faculteit Sociale Wetenschappen, Faculteit Rechten, Universiteit Antwerpen, Sint-Jacobstraat 2, 2000, Antwerpen, België

    Koen Ponnet

  2. Hoger Instituut voor Gezinswetenschappen, Odisee, Huart Hamoirlaan 136, 1030, Brussel, België

    Koen Ponnet

  3. Onderzoekseenheid Gezins- en Orthopedagogiek, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leopold Vanderkelenstraat 32, 3000, Leuven, België

    Karla Van Leeuwen

  4. Faculteit Sociale Wetenschappen, Universiteit Antwerpen, Sint-Jacobstraat 2, 2000, Antwerpen, België

    Elke Claessens &  Edwin Wouters

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Ponnet, K., Van Leeuwen, K., Claessens, E. et al. Financiële stress van ouders en externaliserend probleemgedrag van adolescenten: De mediërende rol van depressieve gevoelens en opvoeding. Kind Adolesc 37, 84–104 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12453-016-0113-8

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