December 4, 2025Child & Family Social WorkOpen Access

The Role of Emotional Parentification in Linking Psychological Abuse and Parental Conflict to Adolescents' Internalised Problems

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Analysis reveals psychological abuse leads to emotional parentification in adolescents, suggesting intervention in family conflict is crucial.

Psychological abuse is linked to emotional parentification, leading to internalised problems in adolescents.
Findings demonstrate that structural equation modelling was used to analyze data from 701 Croatian adolescents.
Parental conflict does not predict emotional parentification, and peer acceptance does not moderate these associations.
These results highlight the importance of addressing psychological abuse to mitigate internalised problems in adolescents.

Luka Stanić (2025) studied this question.

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Analysis reveals psychological abuse leads to emotional parentification in adolescents, suggesting intervention in family conflict is crucial.