Trajectories of emotional disclosure with parents during the college transition among Asian first-year students
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Summary
This summary is machine-generated.First-year college students
Area Of Science
- Psychology
- Sociology
- Cultural Studies
Background
- College transition involves significant emotional changes for students.
- Parental emotional sharing can support first-year students' adjustment.
- Cultural theories on self-construal and social sharing of emotions provide a framework for understanding emotional disclosure.
Purpose Of The Study
- To investigate the developmental trajectories of emotional disclosure with parents among freshmen in China and Singapore.
- To examine the mediating role of independence-orientation in cultural differences in emotional disclosure patterns.
Main Methods
- Experience sampling method (online diary) used to collect data across four timepoints.
- Latent growth curve modeling and mediated latent growth curve modeling applied to analyze data.
- 205 Chinese freshmen and 291 Singapore freshmen participated in the study.
Main Results
- Emotional disclosure frequency increased for Chinese students but decreased for Singaporean students.
- Intimacy in emotional disclosure showed upward trajectories for both groups.
- Negativity and positivity in disclosure decreased for both groups, with less pronounced declines for Chinese students.
Conclusions
- Cultural contexts significantly influence the developmental trajectories of emotional disclosure with parents.
- Independence-orientation mediates cultural differences in the frequency and intimacy of emotional disclosure.
- Findings offer insights into parent-child emotional communication during the critical college transition period in Asian societies.
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