Title
Emerging Adults’ Psychopathology in Seven Countries: The Impact of Identity-Related Risk Factors
Date Issued
01 June 2020
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Persike M.
Seiffge-Krenke I.
Cok F.
Głogowska K.
Pavlopoulos V.
Tantaros S.
Perchec C.
Rohail I.
Publisher(s)
SAGE Publications Inc.
Abstract
The impact of identity-related risk factors on psychopathology was analyzed in 2,113 emerging adults (M = 22.0 years; 66% female) from France, Germany, Turkey, Greece, Peru, Pakistan, and Poland. Identity stress, coping with identity stress, maternal parenting (support, psychological control, and anxious rearing), and psychopathology (internalizing, externalizing, and total symptomatology) were assessed. After partialing out the influence of stress, coping, and perceived maternal behavior, country did no longer exert a significant effect on symptom scores. The effect for gender remained, as did an interaction between country and gender. Rather unexpected, on average, males reported higher internalizing symptomatology scores than females. Potential causes for the higher scores of males are therefore discussed. Partialing out covariates resulted in a clearer picture of country-specific and gender-dependent effects on psychopathology, which is helpful in designing interventions.
Start page
179
End page
194
Volume
8
Issue
3
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Psicología (incluye relaciones hombre-máquina)
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85058642279
Source
Emerging Adulthood
ISSN of the container
21676968
Sponsor(s)
The authors are grateful for the Best International Research Award of SSEA, which was assigned to this study at the conference Self and Identity at Cluj-Napoca, Romania, May 2018. The author(s) received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.
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