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Adolescents' Aggression to Parents: Longitudinal Links With Parents' Physical Aggression

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Margolin, Gayla, Baucom, Brian R.·2014·Journal of Adolescent Health

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Purpose To investigate whether parents' previous physical aggression (PPA) exhibited during early adolescence is associated with adolescents' subsequent parent-directed aggression even beyond parents' concurrent physical aggression (CPA) and to investigate whether adolescents' emotion dysregulation and attitudes condoning child-to-parent aggression moderate associations.Methods Adolescents (N = 93) and their parents participated in a prospective longitudinal study. Adolescents and parents reported at waves 1-3 on four types of parents' PPA (mother to adolescent, father to adolescent, mother to father, and father to mother). Wave 3 assessments also included adolescents' emotion dysregulation, attitudes condoning aggression, and externalizing behaviors. At waves 4 and 5, adolescents and parents reported on adolescents' parent-directed physical aggression, property damage, and verbal aggression and on parents' CPA.Results Parents' PPA emerged as a significant indicator of adolescents' parent-directed physical aggression (odds ratio [OR]: 1.25, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.0-1.55; p = .047), property damage (OR: 1.29, 95% CI: 1.1-1.5, p = .002), and verbal aggression (OR: 1.35, 95% CI: 1.15-1.6, p < .001) even controlling for adolescents' sex, externalizing behaviors, and family income. When controlling for parents' CPA, previous mother-to-adolescent aggression still predicted adolescents' parent-directed physical aggression (OR: 5.56, 95% CI: 1.82-17.0, p = .003), and father-to-mother aggression predicted adolescents' parent-directed verbal aggression (OR: 1.86, 95% CI: 1.0-3.3, p = .036). Emotion dysregulation and attitudes condoning aggression did not produce direct or moderated the effects.Conclusions Adolescents' parent-directed aggression deserves greater attention in discourse about lasting, adverse effects of even minor forms of parents' physical aggression. Future research should investigate parent-directed aggression as an early signal of aggression into adulthood.

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  • JWH's parent-directed physical aggression may be related to his father's previous use of physical disciplinary measures.

    “JWH’s parent‐directed physical aggression may be related to his father's previous use of physical disciplinary measures. 24”

    From Psychiatric care for a person with MELAS syndrome: A case report (2021) · cites this paper as [24]

    The Discussion reports that prior parental physical aggression was associated with adolescents’ parent-directed physical aggression, supporting the claim’s general possibility. But the Results identify mother-to-adolescent aggression—not father-to-adolescent aggression—as the significant individual indicator. The paper measures physical aggression rather than establishing that the fathers’ acts were disciplinary, and it does not assess JWH individually. (LLM, conf=0.85)

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  • JWH's parents continued to feel powerless despite concurred improvement and trials of parent-child activity and home-leave.

    “His parents continued to feel powerless despite concurred improvement and trials of parent‐child activity and home‐leave. 24”

    From Psychiatric care for a person with MELAS syndrome: A case report (2021) · cites this paper as [24]

    The Methods (Participants) describe a non-clinical longitudinal study of adolescents and their parents, while the Results (Indicators of Parent-Directed Aggression) concern links between parental and adolescent aggression. Searches for parental powerlessness, parent-child activity, and home-leave found no passage about JWH or the reported treatment course. (LLM, conf=0.78)

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Authors
Margolin, G., & Baucom, B. R.
Affiliations
  • University of Southern California (US)
  • University of Utah (US)
Corresponding author
Margolin, Gayla
Venue
Journal of Adolescent Health
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2014-11
Volume
55
Issue
5
Pages
645-651
ISSN
1054-139X (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W1996322236
Cited by
149
References
45
Citations by year
2026: 14 · 2025: 16 · 2024: 14 · 2023: 16 · 2022: 14 · 2021: 18 · 2020: 19 · 2019: 13 · 2018: 7 · 2017: 10 · 2016: 2 · 2015: 6
FWCI
7.66
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Journal of Adolescent Health (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
  • David and Lucile Packard Foundation
  • National Institutes of Health
  • National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
  • Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R21-HD072170 A1, R21HD072170, R01HD046807, F32HD060410)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Health › Intimate Partner and Family Violence
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
Keywords
adolescents, verbal aggression, property damage, emotional dysregulation, externalizing problems
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Adolescent Behavior, Psychology, Adolescent, Adult, Aggression, Family Relations, Female, Humans, Longitudinal Studies, Male, Middle Aged, Parent-Child Relations, Parents, Prospective Studies, Punishment, Temperament, Family Conflict

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