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The relation of parenting practices and self-conceptions to adolescent internalising and externalising problems

The object of the present research was to examine the relation of parenting practices and self-conceptions to young adolescent behavioural and emotional problems. Twelve years old adolescents (164 boys and 176 girls) were administered Child Behavior Checklist, Harter's Self-perception Profile and scales that measured their perception of parental monitoring, parental support and joint decision-making. Based on the results of factor analysis four subscales of problem behaviours were formed: anxious/depressed, somatic complaints, aggressive/impulsive and deviant behavior. A series of hierarchical multiple regression analyses was conducted with problem behaviours as criterion variables and parenting practices and self-concept domains as predictors. The findings indicated that girls' and boys' externalising problems and boys' higher anxiety/depression could be best explained by lower parental monitoring, which was mediated by negative conceptions of behavioral conduct. Effects of parental monitoring on girls' anxious/depressed problems are mediated by global self-worth. Lower level of girls' anxious/depressed problems was also significantly predicted by parental tendency of granting autonomy to their daughters, whose effects were mediated by girls' conceptions of higher social acceptance. Boys' somatic complaints were related to negative conceptions of physical appearance, while girls' somatic complaints could be predicted by negative conceptions of scholastic competence and parental practices that did not allow autonomous decision-making.

parenting practices; self-concept; behavioural and emotional problems; adolescents

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