RT Article
T1 Paternal Incarceration, Family Relationships, and Adolescents’ Internalizing and Externalizing Problem Behaviors
JF Journal of developmental and life-course criminology
VO 10
IS 2
SP 213
OP 241
A1 Venema, Simon D.
A2 Haan, Marieke
A2 Blaauw, Eric 1965-
A2 Veenstra, David René 1969-
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1898366616
AB Little is known about the conditions under which paternal incarceration is harmful to children and the mechanisms that explain this. This study addressed the family relationship context in the associations between paternal incarceration and adolescents’ internalizing and externalizing problem behaviors. Using data from the Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study, a moderated mediation model was specified where paternal incarceration predicted adolescents’ internalizing and externalizing problem behaviors through family relationship quality, and where the mediating role of family relationship quality was moderated by pre-incarceration family relationship characteristics. Using latent profile analyses, three pre-incarceration family clusters were identified (“Cohesive”; “Fragmented”; “Disharmonious”). Analyses indicated that the association between paternal incarceration and family relationship quality differed across pre-incarceration family clusters and that decreased father-mother relationship quality mediated the negative association between paternal incarceration and adolescents’ internalizing and externalizing problem behaviors among “Cohesive” and “Fragmented”, but not among “Disharmonious” family clusters. The findings suggest that adolescents with more harmonious pre-incarceration family relationships are most vulnerable to the negative consequences of paternal incarceration. The study demonstrates the need to consider the family relationship context to understand the intergenerational consequences of incarceration.
K1 Fathers and fatherhood
K1 Parent–child relationships
K1 Family relationships
K1 Adolescent risk behaviors
K1 Criminal justice and incarceration
DO 10.1007/s40865-024-00253-6