TY - JOUR
T1 - Mother and adolescent expressed emotion and adolescent internalizing and externalizing symptom development
T2 - a six-year longitudinal study
AU - Hale, William W.
AU - Crocetti, Elisabetta
AU - Nelemans, Stefanie A.
AU - Branje, Susan J. T.
AU - van Lier, Pol A C
AU - Koot, Hans M.
AU - Meeus, Wim H J
PY - 2016/6/1
Y1 - 2016/6/1
N2 - In expressed emotion (EE) theory, it is held that high EE household environments enhance adolescent psychopathological distress. However, no longitudinal study has been conducted to examine if either the mother’s EE or the adolescent’s perception of EE predicts adolescent internalizing and externalizing symptom dimensions (an EE effect model) or vice versa (psychopathological effect model) together in one model. To unravel the reciprocal influences of maternal and adolescent perceived EE to adolescent internalizing and externalizing symptom dimensions, we tested two (i.e., one for internalizing and one for externalizing) cross-lagged panel models. In this study, it was found that both internalizing and externalizing symptom dimensions predicted the adolescent’s perception of maternal EE as well as the mother’s own rated EE criticism over time. The findings of this study should give both researchers and therapists a reason to reevaluate only using the EE effects model assumption in future EE studies.
AB - In expressed emotion (EE) theory, it is held that high EE household environments enhance adolescent psychopathological distress. However, no longitudinal study has been conducted to examine if either the mother’s EE or the adolescent’s perception of EE predicts adolescent internalizing and externalizing symptom dimensions (an EE effect model) or vice versa (psychopathological effect model) together in one model. To unravel the reciprocal influences of maternal and adolescent perceived EE to adolescent internalizing and externalizing symptom dimensions, we tested two (i.e., one for internalizing and one for externalizing) cross-lagged panel models. In this study, it was found that both internalizing and externalizing symptom dimensions predicted the adolescent’s perception of maternal EE as well as the mother’s own rated EE criticism over time. The findings of this study should give both researchers and therapists a reason to reevaluate only using the EE effects model assumption in future EE studies.
KW - Adolescent
KW - Expressed emotion
KW - Externalizing symptoms
KW - Internalizing symptoms
KW - Longitudinal
KW - Mother
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U2 - 10.1007/s00787-015-0772-7
DO - 10.1007/s00787-015-0772-7
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84944589118
SN - 1018-8827
VL - 25
SP - 615
EP - 624
JO - European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
JF - European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
IS - 6
ER -