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- Title
The Relation between Residential Mobility and Internalizing and Externalizing Problems in Adolescence: The Role of Subjective Moving Experience, Gender, and Friendship Quality.
- Authors
Henkens, Juul H. D.; Stevens, Gonneke W. J. M.; de Valk, Helga A. G.
- Abstract
Adolescent residential mobility can be a stressful life event, potentially aggravating internalizing or externalizing problems. However, the longitudinal effects of residential mobility are understudied and may be context-dependent. This study investigates the longitudinal associations between adolescent residential mobility and internalizing and externalizing problems. Additionally, this study examines for whom residential moves are most detrimental by including subjective moving experience, gender, and friendship quality before the move as moderators. Longitudinal data from 2,029 adolescents (51% female) from the TRacking Adolescents' Individual Lives Survey (TRAILS) were used (Mage [SD] at T1 = 11.1 [0.55], T2 = 13.6 [0.52], and T3 = 16.3 [0.70]). Results from stepwise multi-level random-effect models showed that adolescents who experienced an unpleasant move remained stable in internalizing problems, while others decreased over time. Adolescents who moved increased stronger in externalizing problems than adolescents who did not move, independent of whether they experienced the move as unpleasant. Gender and friendship quality before the move did not moderate the relation between residential mobility and internalizing or externalizing problem development. These results emphasize that residential moves in adolescence, especially when experienced as unpleasant, can have long-lasting negative effects on adolescent development.
- Subjects
ADOLESCENT development; RESEARCH funding; SEX distribution; INTERNALIZING behavior; TEENAGERS' conduct of life; LONGITUDINAL method; EXTERNALIZING behavior; RESIDENTIAL mobility; FRIENDSHIP; ADOLESCENCE
- Publication
Journal of Youth & Adolescence, 2024, Vol 53, Issue 10, p2234
- ISSN
0047-2891
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10964-024-02014-6