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College Students' Spiritual and Psychosocial Struggles with Parental Psychological Aggression: Unique Effects on Psychological and Relational Adjustment

Wong, Serena
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu14961671988679

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2017, Master of Arts (MA), Bowling Green State University, Psychology/Clinical.
This cross-sectional study examines the relations among college students’ experiences of parental psychological aggression, spiritual and psychosocial coping, psychological adjustment, and parent-offspring relationship satisfaction. Separate analyses were conducted to examine participants’ relationships with their current mother (N = 307) and father (N = 210) figures. Parental psychological aggression (PPA) is relatively common, with 59% and 40% of students reporting at least one incident of some type of non-physical aggression from mothers and fathers, respectively, over the past year. Higher levels of PPA with both parents were consistently correlated with less relationship satisfaction and greater depression, anxiety, trauma-related distress, and use of coping strategies. Spiritual struggles in coping consistently predicted greater psychological maladjustment, with unique effects on anxiety (father dataset) and trauma-related distress (mother dataset) that persisted after controlling for PPA and psychosocial struggles. Interestingly, spiritual struggles in coping also uniquely predicted greater mother-offspring relationship satisfaction. In accordance with stress mobilization, spiritual resources were also uniquely predictive of greater anxiety (father dataset), trauma-related distress (both datasets), and mother-offspring relationship satisfaction, after controlling for PPA and psychosocial resources.
Annette Mahoney (Advisor)
Kenneth Pargament (Committee Member)
Dara Musher-Eizenman (Committee Member)
108 p.
Clinical Psychology
spiritual struggles; parental psychological aggression; coping

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  • Wong, S. (2017). College Students' Spiritual and Psychosocial Struggles with Parental Psychological Aggression: Unique Effects on Psychological and Relational Adjustment [Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu14961671988679

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Wong, Serena. College Students' Spiritual and Psychosocial Struggles with Parental Psychological Aggression: Unique Effects on Psychological and Relational Adjustment. 2017. Bowling Green State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu14961671988679.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Wong, Serena. "College Students' Spiritual and Psychosocial Struggles with Parental Psychological Aggression: Unique Effects on Psychological and Relational Adjustment." Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu14961671988679

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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