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Wilbers, Amarens (2025)

Resilience related to psychosocial health in adolescents with mentally ill family members

Master thesis | Psychology (MSc)

This Dutch study examined whether having a mentally ill family member influences adolescent psychosocial health and resilience, focusing on social support, assertiveness, and parental relation quality. A total of 421 adolescents with a mentally ill family member (target group) were compared to 9504 adolescents without familial mental illness (control group), using data from the Youth Health Monitor, conducted by the Dutch Public Health Service Gelderland North East (GGD GNE) based on ANCOVA and linear regression (n=9925; 51.4% girls; mean age=14.2). Results revealed that social support did not show group differences, but the target groups scored lower on assertiveness and parental relation quality. Moreover, parental relationship quality emerged as a positive moderator on adolescent psychosocial health. These findings highlight potential targets for future interventions aimed at enhancing parental relationships and assertiveness skills to improve the psychosocial health of...Show moreThis Dutch study examined whether having a mentally ill family member influences adolescent psychosocial health and resilience, focusing on social support, assertiveness, and parental relation quality. A total of 421 adolescents with a mentally ill family member (target group) were compared to 9504 adolescents without familial mental illness (control group), using data from the Youth Health Monitor, conducted by the Dutch Public Health Service Gelderland North East (GGD GNE) based on ANCOVA and linear regression (n=9925; 51.4% girls; mean age=14.2). Results revealed that social support did not show group differences, but the target groups scored lower on assertiveness and parental relation quality. Moreover, parental relationship quality emerged as a positive moderator on adolescent psychosocial health. These findings highlight potential targets for future interventions aimed at enhancing parental relationships and assertiveness skills to improve the psychosocial health of adolescents with a mentally ill family member.Show less

Resilience

social support

assertiveness

parental relation quality

psychosocial heath

adolescents

familial illness

Author

Wilbers, Amarens

Faculty

Faculty of Social & Behavioural Sciences

Specialisation

Clinical Psychology

Supervisors

Sieh, D.

ECTS Credits

15

Language

en