LIFE STRESS AND ADJUSTMENT - EFFECTS OF LIFE EVENTS EXPERIENCED BY YOUNG ADOLESCENTS AND THEIR PARENTS
LIFE STRESS AND ADJUSTMENT - EFFECTS OF LIFE EVENTS EXPERIENCED BY YOUNG ADOLESCENTS AND THEIR PARENTS
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DOI：
10.1037/0012-1649.23.4.583
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发表时间：
1987-07-01
影响因子：
4
通讯作者：
BJORCK, JP
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作者：
COHEN, LH;BURT, CE;BJORCK, JP
采用纵向设计来测试青少年及其父母所经历的生活事件的影响。标准是青少年的抑郁、焦虑和自尊。纵向分析显示，青少年的消极事件是可控的，而不是不可控制的。然而，因果分析显示，这种影响是初始适应与随后发生的可控生活压力（如休学）之间显著相关的结果。纵向分析也揭示了积极事件的压力保护作用，但仅限于女孩的自尊。没有纵向支持父母消极生活事件的作用。这些发现并不支持早期青少年及其父母经历的相对离散的负面事件积累的病因学重要性，但它们确实表明需要(a)在未来的发展精神病理学研究中将（可控的）生活压力概念化为一个因变量；(b)研究青少年早期生活压力的性别差异；(c)开发更复杂的家庭生活压力测量方法。
A longitudinal design was used to test the effects of life events experienced by young adolescents and their parents. The criteria were the adolescents'' depression, anxiety, and self-esteem. The longitudinal analysis revealed a significant for the adolescents'' controllable, but not uncontrollable, negative events. However, causal analyses revealed that this effect was the result of the significant relation between initial adjustment and the subsequent occurrence of controllable life stress (e.g., school suspension). The longitudinal analysis also revealed the stress-protective role of positive events, but only with respect to girls'' self-esteem. There was no longitudinal support for the role of the parents'' negative life events. These findings do not support the etiological importance of an accumulation of relatively discrete negative events experienced by early adolescents and their parents, but they do suggest the need (a) to conceptualize (controllable) life stress as a dependent variable in future research on developmental psychopathology; (b) to examine gender differences in early adolescent life stress; and (c) to develop more sophisticated measures of family life stress.