SUBJECTIVE HEALTH COMPLAINTS IN FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD CZECH ADOLESCENTS: THE ROLE OF SELF-ESTEEM, INTER-PARENTAL CONFLICT, AND GENDER

• Authors: Daňsová Petra , Bouša Ondřej , Lacinová Lenka , Macek Petr , Tomášková Zuzana , Cígler Hynek
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

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This cross-sectional study aims to 1) investigate the factor structure and measurement invariance of subjective health complaints inventory in terms of gender, 2) examine the role of self-esteem, inter-parental conflict and gender in Czech adolescents’ subjective health complaints, and 3) examine a possible moderating effect of gender in these relationships. Czech adolescents (N = 1602, 51% girls) from an epidemiological part of the European Longitudinal Study of Pregnancy and Childhood (ELSPAC) completed questionnaires at home and a psychological sub-sample of ELSPAC (n = 343, 46% girls) completed questionnaires during individual psychological examinations in the years 2006 and 2007. The subjective health complaints inventory used in this study is a unidimensional and scalar invariant for sex. Girls reported more subjective health symptoms than boys. Self-esteem may play a protective role for the adolescents’ subjective health symptoms, especially in boys, whereas self-blame and threat in an inter-parental conflict may serve as a risk factor similarly for both sexes.

Keywords

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HEALTH COMPLAINTS; SELF-ESTEEM; INTER-PARENTAL; CZECH; ADOLESCENTS

• Publisher: Institute of Experimental Psychology, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Studia Psychologica
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 61
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 258 – 270

Contributors

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Daňsová Petra

• Institute for Research on Children, Youth and Family, Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University, Joštova 10, 602 00, Brno, Czech Republic

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Bouša Ondřej

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Lacinová Lenka

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Macek Petr

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Tomášková Zuzana

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Cígler Hynek

Identifiers

DOI

10.21909/sp.2019.04.787