Unit:
Κατεύθυνση Ψυχική Υγεία και Ψυχιατρική Παιδιών και ΕφήβωνLibrary of the School of Health Sciences
Author:
Papalexandrou Georgia
Supervisors info:
Κολαΐτης Γεράσιμος, Ομότιμος Καθηγητής, Ιατρική Σχολή, ΕΚΠΑ
Γιαννακόπουλος Γεώργιος, Επίκουρος Καθηγητής, Ιατρική Σχολή, ΕΚΠΑ
Σταύρου Πήλιος-Δημήτρης, Επίκουρος Καθηγητής, Τομέας Ψυχολογίας, ΕΚΠΑ
Original Title:
Τραυματικές εμπειρίες Ελλήνων εφήβων και εξωτερικευμένα προβλήματα: ο διαμεσολαβητικός ρόλος της οικογενειακής λειτουργικότητας
Translated title:
Traumatic events of Greek adolescents and externalizing problems: the mediating role of family functioning
Summary:
Background: Exposure to traumatic events has been associated with reduced functioning, which, in adolescence, is often manifested by externalizing problems. Family functioning has been found to play a substantial role in the relationship between traumatic events and child or adolescent psychopathology.
Aim: To investigate the relation between the exposure to traumatic events and externalizing problems and the potential mediating role of family functioning in the relationship between these variables in a community sample of Greek adolescents.
Methods: 712 adolescent students with mean age 15,03 years (sd = 0.82, 62.1% girls) and 685 parents/guardians (84.2% women) were included. The questionnaires used were the “Achenbach’s Behavior Checklists”, the “International Trauma Questionnaire for Children and Adolescents”, the General Functioning subscale of the “Family Assessment Device” and the “Depression and Anxiety Stress Scale”.
Results: 23.4% of boys and 26.5% of girls belonged to the clinical/subclinical range. There was a statistically significant relationship between exposure to traumatic events and the externalizing problems of girls (β = 0.21, p <0.05) and boys (β = 0.30, p <0.05) of the normal range, having controlled for sociodemographic characteristics, family functioning and parental psychopathology. Family functioning partially mediated the relationship between traumatic events and externalizing problems (b = 0,13, p<0,05; b = 0,47, p<0,05).
Conclusion: Family functioning plays a mediating role between the exposure to traumatic events and externalizing problems, a fact that could be used in research as well as in clinical practice in family therapy.
Main subject category:
Health Sciences
Keywords:
Traumatic events, Externalizing problems, Family functioning, Adolescence
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