Publication Date

12-10-2018

Document Type

Article

First Advisor

Pittman, Laura D.

Degree Name

B.S. (Bachelor of Science)

Legacy Department

Department of Psychology

Abstract

The associations between how parents’ co-parenting influence adolescent’s mental health, and how adolescents’ mental health influences parent’s co-parenting are compared in this study. Participants were parents who had a first-born adolescent about to enter sixth grade and they were currently living in the same household. The participants took questionnaires at three time points, every eight weeks, through Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk). This research study focuses on only the first two-time points and questionnaires about co-parenting dimensions (i.e., conflict, triangulation, cooperation) and adolescents’ depressive symptoms. Six linear regressions were run using SPSS 21, and all analyses controlled for the corresponding Time 1 outcome. Positive associations between co-parenting triangulation, conflict, and adolescent depressive symptoms at both Time 1 and Time 2 were found. Furthermore, there was a significant negative association between co-parenting cooperation and adolescent depressive symptoms at Time 2 but not Time 1. These results indicate that negative co-parenting interactions (i.e., triangulation, conflict), are associated with adolescent depressive symptoms, but not positive interactions (i.e., cooperation).

Comments

This paper was completed as part of the author's University Capstone project at Northern Illinois University. Mentorship was provided by Lauren, McNeela and Laura Pittman, Ph.D.

Extent

22 pages

Language

eng

Publisher

Northern Illinois University

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In Copyright

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NIU theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from Huskie Commons for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without the written permission of the authors.

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