Family-related adversity and positive youth development: the role of psychological distress, hopelessness and hostility

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40359-025-03098-w" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40359-025-03098-w</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40359-025-03098-w" target="_blank" >10.1186/s40359-025-03098-w</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Family-related adversity and positive youth development: the role of psychological distress, hopelessness and hostility

Original language description

Background The family is a very important institution that provides relationships and contexts for adolescents and can activate a trajectory of their positive development. Family-related adversity can endanger this development via associated negative emotions, such as feelings of hopelessness, hostility, and psychological distress. Therefore, we aimed first to explore the association of family-related adversity with positive youth development (PYD), and second whether psychological distress, hopelessness, and hostility mediate this association. Methods We obtained self-reported data from 308 Slovak adolescents (44.5% were boys, mean age = 12.55). Family-related adversity was measured using questions regarding the death of parents, divorce/separation, violence between parents, and parental substance abuse. Positive youth development was measured with the Very Short PYD questionnaire; psychological distress with the GHQ-12; hopelessness with the Hopelessness questionnaire and hostility with a subscale from the Aggression Questionnaire. Results We found that family-related adversity was not associated with the first PYD component-internal values (regarding the domains of character and caring). However, it was negatively associated with its second component-self-and social efficacy (regarding the domains connection, competence and confidence): regression coefficient B=-0.32; 95%; confidence interval CI:-0.57 to-0.06). Next, we found that psychological distress (0.38;-0.50 to-0.26), hopelessness (-0.18;-0.31 to-0.05) and hostility (-0.23;-0.33 to-0.13) were associated with self-and social efficacy. Moreover, all potential mediators had statistically significant indirect effects: psychological distress-0.11, hopelessness-0.09 and hostility-0.08. Conclusion These findings may provide suggestions for programs supporting adolescents from families in adversity. These could be directed at better coping with psychological distress and addressing hostility and hopelessness.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50101 - Psychology (including human - machine relations)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

BMC Psychology

ISSN

2050-7283

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

13

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

10

Pages from-to

nestránkováno

UT code for WoS article

001526894900009

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-105010416884