The purpose of this study was to examine the longitudinal relationship
among mothers' parental efficacy, adolescents' perceived family support, social
withdrawal and depression, and to examine the longitudinal mediating effect
between them. Using four...
The purpose of this study was to examine the longitudinal relationship
among mothers' parental efficacy, adolescents' perceived family support, social
withdrawal and depression, and to examine the longitudinal mediating effect
between them. Using four waves of the Multicultural Adolescents Panel Study,
autoregressive cross-lagged models were estimated. Results indicated that
mothers’ parental efficacy, adolescents' perceived family support, social
withdrawal and depression were relatively stable over the 4-year period.
Mothers’ parental efficacy positively predicted adolescents' perceived family
support. However, no significant effects were found in the associations between
adolescent child’s social withdrawal and depression and mothers' parental
efficacy. Adolescents' perceived family support positively predicted mothers’
parental efficacy and negatively predicted depression. However, no significant
effects were found in the associations between adolescents’ social withdrawal
and perceived family support. Adolescents' social withdrawal positively
predicted depression. However, no significant effects were found in the
associations between mothers’ parenting efficacy and adolescents' perceived
family support and social withdrawal. Adolescents' depression negatively
predicted adolescents' perceived family support and positively predicted social
withdrawal. However, no significant effects were found in the associations
between mothers' parental efficacy and adolescents' depression. Therefore, all of
the variable relationships significantly shown in this study had a bidirectional
relationship. Based on this relationship, the path through which multicultural
mothers' parental efficacy sequentially mediated Adolescents' perceived family
support, depression and social withdrawal was identified, and the path was
verified in reverse order. As a result, both pathways were significant, and it
was found that the influence of adolescents on parents was slightly more than
that of parents on adolescents.