Ilanit Hasson-Ohayon1, Rivka Tuval-Mashiach2, Mayad Morag-Yaffe2, Meyrav Gaziel2, Lior Schapir3, Gil Zalsman4, Gal Shoval3. 1. Department of Psychology, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel. Electronic address: Ilanit.hasson-ohayon@biu.ac.il. 2. Department of Psychology, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel. 3. Child and Adolescents' Psychiatry Division, Geha Mental Health Center, Petach Tikva, Israel; Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel. 4. Child and Adolescents' Psychiatry Division, Geha Mental Health Center, Petach Tikva, Israel; Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel; Division of Molecular Imaging and Neuropathology, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Parents of adolescents with mental disorders experience stress partially due to the way they perceive and experience their offspring's disorder. The current study assessed the mediator role of self-stigma in the relationship between insight into the disorder and parental stress of parents of adolescents with mental disorders. METHOD: A total of 37 parents of adolescents with psychiatric disorders were assessed for their level of insight, self-stigma and parental stress. RESULTS: The hypothesized mediation model was confirmed and is consistent with previous study on parents of adults with severe mental illness. DISCUSSION: The positive association between insight and parental stress is mediated by these parents' self-stigma, suggesting that insight increases the self-stigma, which in turn increases the parental stress. These results may have clinical implications with regard to the treatment of the family of adolescents with mental disorders.
BACKGROUND: Parents of adolescents with mental disorders experience stress partially due to the way they perceive and experience their offspring's disorder. The current study assessed the mediator role of self-stigma in the relationship between insight into the disorder and parental stress of parents of adolescents with mental disorders. METHOD: A total of 37 parents of adolescents with psychiatric disorders were assessed for their level of insight, self-stigma and parental stress. RESULTS: The hypothesized mediation model was confirmed and is consistent with previous study on parents of adults with severe mental illness. DISCUSSION: The positive association between insight and parental stress is mediated by these parents' self-stigma, suggesting that insight increases the self-stigma, which in turn increases the parental stress. These results may have clinical implications with regard to the treatment of the family of adolescents with mental disorders.
Authors: Halewijn M Drent; Barbara van den Hoofdakker; Jan K Buitelaar; Pieter J Hoekstra; Andrea Dietrich Journal: Int J Environ Res Public Health Date: 2022-10-06 Impact factor: 4.614