Parenting Journal · Volume 2 · Issue 1 · Licensed source edition
Does family communication moderate the association between adverse childhood experiences and emotional and behavioural problems?
Originally published 2020-08-20 · BMC Public Health
BMC · DOI 10.1186/s12889-020-09350-9 ↗
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What does a young person mean when they say talking with family is easy or hard?
The analysis asks whether family communication changes the relationship between exposure to adversity and reported emotional or behavioral problems.
Who was studied?
5,202 adolescents in the 2018 Slovak Health Behaviour in School-aged Children study.
Age / stage: Ages eleven to fifteen
Read with three questions
- How is a test of moderation different from showing an intervention effect?
- Which measures came from the same participant, and which had an independent source?
- How does the study distinguish one family member’s report from a shared account?
Keep the limits in view
A cross-sectional account measures variables in the same period. It cannot establish which came first; participants reporting more than one measure may also introduce shared reporting bias.
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Miriama Lackova Rebicova; Zuzana Dankulincova Veselska; Daniela Husarova; Daniel Klein; Andrea Madarasova Geckova; Jitse P van Dijk; Sijmen A Reijneveld (2020). Does family communication moderate the association between adverse childhood experiences and emotional and behavioural problems? BMC Public Health. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-020-09350-9
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