TY - JOUR AU - Pummanee, Treenut AU - Perngmark, Pajongsil AU - Piriyasart, Jitlada AU - Tluzcek, Audrey PY - 2017/12/23 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Quality of Daughter-father Communication Associated with Youth Externalizing/Internalizing Problems in Thailand JF - Journal of Research in Nursing-Midwifery and Health Sciences JA - JRN-MHS VL - 37 IS - Supplement SE - Research Articles Supplement DO - UR - https://he02.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/nur-psu/article/view/106597 SP - 69-79 AB - <p>Quality of parent-youth communication has been studied as an important variable affecting youth&nbsp;Quality of parent-youth communication has been studied as an important variable affecting youth&nbsp;mental health. However, the term “parents” in previous studies have been mixed both mother and father;&nbsp;or focused only on mother. Limited research has explored whether the quality of communication (positive&nbsp;and problematic) between youth daughter and her father is associated with daughter’s mental health. This&nbsp;study aimed to explore the association between quality of daughter-father communication and daughter’s&nbsp;mental health. The Circumplex model was guided the hypotheses: 1) There will be a negative relationship&nbsp;between positive of youth daughter-father communication and daughters’ externalizing/internalizing problems;&nbsp;2) There will be a positive relationship between problematic of youth daughter-father communication and&nbsp;daughters’ externalizing/ internalizing problems.&nbsp;Participants were 156 female youth from two high schools in Southern Thailand. Thai versions of&nbsp;Parent-adolescent Communication Scale measured quality of youth-father communication and Youth Selfreport Checklist measured youth externalizing/ internalizing problems were completed by youth. A correlation&nbsp;and a series of hierarchical regression procedures were used to analyze the data after adjusting for covariates&nbsp;factors: youth stressful life events, father marital status, and socioeconomic status. Significant positive associations were found between problematic of youth daughter-fathercommunication and daughters’ mental health. However, there were no significant associations between positiveof daughter-father communication and daughters’ mental health. Nurses and researchers working with youth&nbsp;and family can apply these findings to inform parents about the important of problematic communicationbetween fathers and daughters toward daughter’s mental health.</p> ER -