Journal article
Longitudinal Prediction of Mid-Adolescent Psychosocial Outcomes From Early Adolescent Family Help Seeking and Family Support
JA Heerde, JW Toumbourou, SA Hemphill, CA Olsson
Journal of Research on Adolescence | Published : 2015
DOI: 10.1111/jora.12113
Abstract
This study examined whether family help seeking and family support represented the same or distinct constructs and prospective associations between emergent constructs and psychosocial outcomes. Data were from 1,713 school-based adolescents participating in a randomized controlled trial, in Victoria, Australia. Family help seeking emerged as a single factor, distinct from family support, and was prospectively associated with improved psychosocial outcomes. Father closeness predicted lower depressive symptoms. Family help seeking predicted higher help seeking for peers. Interactions between family help seeking and family support on psychosocial outcomes were not apparent. Findings highlight t..
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Funding Acknowledgements
Professor Toumbourou holds intellectual property responsibility for the Resilient Families program. The research was completed with funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council (Project Grant No. 251721), the Alcohol Education and Rehabilitation Foundation, and the Grosvenor Settlement Philanthropic Trust. Professor Toumbourou was supported by a VicHealth Senior Research Fellowship. Parent recruitment was supported by pro bono work from the staff of Beaton Well-mark. The authors declare their independence from the funders and from any tobacco, alcohol, pharmaceutical, or gaming industries, or anybody substantially funded by one of these organizations. The funding bodies impose no contractual constraints on publishing.