Parental relationship quality and adolescent depressive symptoms: Investigating the role of parental warmth and hostility in United States military families
- Lucier-Greer, M., Howard, S., & Mancini, J. A. (2021). Parental relationship quality and adolescent depressive symptoms: Investigating the role of parental warmth and hostility in United States military families. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 47(3), 566-580. https://doi.org/10.1111/jmft.12451
- Due to frequent transitions, parents play an important role in the lives and sense of stability of military-connected adolescents. As such, parenting practices may be especially important for adolescent well-being. Additionally, the quality of the romantic relationship between the parents may “spill over” into and affect their parenting practices, which may hold implications for adolescents’ wellbeing. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to examine the associations between parental romantic relationship quality, parenting practices (i.e., adolescents’ reports of parental warmth and hostility), and adolescent depressive symptoms in a sample of 229 military families. Parental romantic relationship quality was indirectly related to adolescent depressive symptoms through their parenting practices, which supports the spillover concept. However, the parenting practices that explained the romantic relationship qualityadolescent depressive symptoms association were different for fathers and mothers.
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