TY - JOUR
T1 - Somatisation and functional impairment in adolescents
T2 - Longitudinal link with mothers' reactions
AU - Rousseau, Sofie
AU - Grietens, Hans
AU - Vanderfaeillie, Johan
AU - Hoppenbrouwers, Karel
AU - Desoete, Annemie
AU - Van Leeuwen, Karla
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Adolescents' somatisation (i.e., the psychological tendency to experience and report multiple physical complaints for which no definite medical cause can be found; SOM) and functional impairment (i.e., all bothersome aftermath of somatisation; FI) were studied in relation to mothers' protection, encouraging/monitoring, and minimisation of physical functional complaints. Besides main effects, interaction effects with other child and parenting characteristics were examined. A total of 990 adolescents and their mothers filled out questionnaires when the adolescents were respectively 12-13 (T1) and 13-14 (T2) years old. At T1, there was a significant relation between mothers' higher amounts of minimisation and adolescents' higher levels of SOM. Further, the link between mothers' higher levels of T1 minimisation and adolescents' higher amounts of T1 FI was significant, but not for adolescents with high levels of depressive mood. Longitudinal analyses revealed that mothers' reactions did not significantly predict adolescents' SOM/FI, nor did adolescents' SOM/FI significantly predict mothers' reactions. Practical implications are discussed. Copyright:
AB - Adolescents' somatisation (i.e., the psychological tendency to experience and report multiple physical complaints for which no definite medical cause can be found; SOM) and functional impairment (i.e., all bothersome aftermath of somatisation; FI) were studied in relation to mothers' protection, encouraging/monitoring, and minimisation of physical functional complaints. Besides main effects, interaction effects with other child and parenting characteristics were examined. A total of 990 adolescents and their mothers filled out questionnaires when the adolescents were respectively 12-13 (T1) and 13-14 (T2) years old. At T1, there was a significant relation between mothers' higher amounts of minimisation and adolescents' higher levels of SOM. Further, the link between mothers' higher levels of T1 minimisation and adolescents' higher amounts of T1 FI was significant, but not for adolescents with high levels of depressive mood. Longitudinal analyses revealed that mothers' reactions did not significantly predict adolescents' SOM/FI, nor did adolescents' SOM/FI significantly predict mothers' reactions. Practical implications are discussed. Copyright:
KW - Encouraging/monitoring
KW - Functional impairmentm
KW - Minimisation
KW - Protection
KW - Somatisation
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84902327401&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.5334/pb.ah
DO - 10.5334/pb.ah
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AN - SCOPUS:84902327401
SN - 0033-2879
VL - 54
SP - 131
EP - 155
JO - Psychologica Belgica
JF - Psychologica Belgica
IS - 1
ER -