Strengthening parental self‐efficacy and resilience: A within‐subject experimental study with refugee parents of adolescents

Post‐migration stress and parenting adolescents can reduce parental self‐efficacy. This study tested the effects of strengthening parental self‐efficacy in refugee parents of adolescents and whether this makes parental self‐efficacy less impacted by post‐migration stressors. Using a within‐subject e...

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Published in:Child development Vol. 94; no. 1; pp. 187 - 201
Main Authors: Eltanamly, Hend, Leijten, Patty, Roekel, Eeske, Mouton, Benedicte, Pluess, Michael, Overbeek, Geertjan
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: United States Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.01.2023
John Wiley and Sons Inc
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adolescents
Adult
Child, Preschool
Ecological momentary assessment
Efficacy
Empirical
Female
Humans
Internal migration
Migration
Mothers
Parental stress
Parenting
Parents
Parents & parenting
Refugees
Research design
Resilience
Sampling
Self Efficacy
Stress
Structural equation modeling
Structural Equation Models
Teenage parents
ISSN:0009-3920, 1467-8624, 1467-8624
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Summary:Post‐migration stress and parenting adolescents can reduce parental self‐efficacy. This study tested the effects of strengthening parental self‐efficacy in refugee parents of adolescents and whether this makes parental self‐efficacy less impacted by post‐migration stressors. Using a within‐subject experimental design, experience sampling data were collected in 2019 from 53 refugee parents of adolescents (Mage = 39.7, SDage = 5.59, 73% Syrian, 70% mothers) in the Netherlands. Data were analyzed by dynamic structural equation modeling using interrupted time‐series analysis. The single‐session personalized intervention strengthened parental self‐efficacy (small effect: between case standardized mean difference = 0.09) and made refugee parents less vulnerable to post‐migration stressors. Findings suggest that parental self‐efficacy is malleable and strengthening it fosters refugee parents' resilience. Replications with longer‐term follow‐ups are needed.
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ISSN:0009-3920
1467-8624
1467-8624
DOI:10.1111/cdev.13848