TY - JOUR
T1 - Examining potential mediators between parents’ relational maintenance with college-age children and students’ perceived stress
AU - LaFreniere, Jenna R.
AU - Shannon, Kay Leigh
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Eastern Communication Association.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - This study examined outcomes of parents’ relational maintenance in terms of college students’ resilience, family communal coping, and stress. We employed the theory of resilience and relational load to examine the associations in the context of family communication. Participants included 322 college students who completed an online questionnaire. Results indicated that college students’ resilience mediates the relationship between parents’ relational maintenance strategies with them and their perceived stress, and that communal coping serves as a mediator between parents’ relational maintenance strategies and college students’ resilience. Lastly, a serial mediation model indicated that communal coping and college students’ resilience serially mediate the association between their parents’ relational maintenance strategies with them and their perceived stress. Overall, this study highlights the importance of parents employing parent-child relational maintenance tactics and the positive impacts for college students.
AB - This study examined outcomes of parents’ relational maintenance in terms of college students’ resilience, family communal coping, and stress. We employed the theory of resilience and relational load to examine the associations in the context of family communication. Participants included 322 college students who completed an online questionnaire. Results indicated that college students’ resilience mediates the relationship between parents’ relational maintenance strategies with them and their perceived stress, and that communal coping serves as a mediator between parents’ relational maintenance strategies and college students’ resilience. Lastly, a serial mediation model indicated that communal coping and college students’ resilience serially mediate the association between their parents’ relational maintenance strategies with them and their perceived stress. Overall, this study highlights the importance of parents employing parent-child relational maintenance tactics and the positive impacts for college students.
KW - Resilience
KW - communal coping
KW - families
KW - relational maintenance
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85113171495&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/01463373.2021.1960875
DO - 10.1080/01463373.2021.1960875
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85113171495
VL - 69
SP - 479
EP - 500
JO - Communication Quarterly
JF - Communication Quarterly
SN - 0146-3373
IS - 5
ER -