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

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Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

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

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

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

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50101 - Psychology (including human - machine relations)

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2025

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

BMC Psychology

ISSN

2050-7283

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

13

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

1

Stát vydavatele periodika

GB - Spojené království Velké Británie a Severního Irska

Počet stran výsledku

10

Strana od-do

nestránkováno

Kód UT WoS článku

001526894900009

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-105010416884