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Life stress, social support, and locus of control during early adolescence: Interactive effects
Author(s) -
Cauce Ana Mari,
Hannan Keith,
Sargeant Marion
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
american journal of community psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.113
H-Index - 112
eISSN - 1573-2770
pISSN - 0091-0562
DOI - 10.1007/bf01312608
Subject(s) - locus of control , psychology , health psychology , social support , competence (human resources) , developmental psychology , social competence , anxiety , clinical psychology , social psychology , public health , social change , psychiatry , medicine , nursing , economics , economic growth
Examined the relationships between negative events, locus of control, social support, and psychological adjustment in an early adolescent sample. Of interest were the potential stress‐buffering effects of social support and the conjunctive effects of social support and locus of control upon adjustment. Family support was positively related to adjustment in several domains, whereas school support was only related to school competence. Peer support was positively related to peer competence and anxiety, and negatively related to school competence. Examination of the buffering hypothesis suggested that both family and school support served to moderate the relationship between negative events and school competence. Conjunctive effects were also detected in that school support buffered number of negative events best for those individuals with an internal locus of control for successes.