Preventing adolescent depression with the family check-up: Examining family conflict as a mechanism of change.

Preventing adolescent depression with the family check-up: Examining family conflict as a mechanism of change.

Family-centered prevention programs are understudied for their effects on adolescent depression, despite considerable evidence that supports their effectiveness for preventing escalation in youth problem behavior and substance use. This study was conducted with 2 overarching goals: (a) replicate previous work that has implicated the Family Check-Up (FCU), a multilevel, gated intervention model ...

A cognitive-interpersonal model of adolescent depression: the impact of family conflict and depressogenic cognitive styles.

The goal of the study is to examine whether family conflict generates peer-related stress and subsequent depressive symptoms among adolescents. In addition, in the context of the proposed mediation model, we examine whether negative cognitive styles about the self, cause, and consequences moderate the mediational pathway between peer stress and depressive symptoms. The study includes 179 adoles...

Is Enough as good as a Feast ? Examining the Relationship between Workaholism and Work - Family ( WFC ) / Family - Work ( FWC ) Conflict

Nowadays, people combine work and family roles more than they used to do before. Workaholics spend large amounts of time at work, work excessively hard, and become obsessed with work. Workaholism can be conceptualized as an addiction like alcoholism. But, what happens to workaholics’ family when they live with work not with them? Workaholics will neglect their family life under the works in the...

Coping with Family Conflict and Economic Strain: The Adolescent Perspective

This study tested two models of family economic problems and adolescent psychological adjustment. Using adolescents’ survey data and information regarding school lunch program enrollment, the associations among family SES, perceived economic strain, family conflict, and coping responses were examined in a sample of 364 adolescents from rural New England. Two theoretical models were tested using...

The Role of Self-Efficacy, Family Support, Family Affection, and Family Conflict on Adolescent Academic Performance