Family Facts: Social Science Research on Family, Society & Religion

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This finding looks at the relationship between adolescents’ reports of feeling close to their fathers and self-report levels of psychological distress.

Adolescents who reported having closer relationships with their fathers tended to report lower levels of psychological distress (e.g., how often they feel sad, tense, lonely, excited, happy) compared to peers who reported being less close with their fathers, controlling for family structure, adolescents’ age, gender, race/ethnicity, family income, and relationships with their mothers.

Sample or Data Description
Data came from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY), using the 1992 sample. The analytical sample consisted of 1,443 adolescents, aged 10 to 18, who were children of the original NLSY79 respondents. Mothers in the 1992 NLSY sample are not nationally representative; they were more likely to be black, young, and have lower levels of education.

Source
"Family Structure, Closeness to Residential and Nonresidential Parents, and Psychological Distress in Early and Middle Adolescence"
Falci, Christina
The Sociological Quarterly Vol. 47, Number . , 2006. Page(s) 123-146.

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