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Danhua Zhu1, Rachel L Miller-Slough2, Pamela W Garner3
1Department of Psychological, Health, & Learning Sciences, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA.
The Journal of Genetic Psychology
|August 1, 2024
Summary
Parental emotion socialization impacts adolescent social adjustment, with girls benefiting uniquely from supportive responses to reduce peer victimization. This bidirectional influence shapes prosociality and peer relations over time.
Area of Science:
- Developmental Psychology
- Adolescent Social Development
- Family Studies
Background:
- Parental emotion socialization is crucial for adolescent social adjustment.
- Understanding the transactional nature of parent-child influences is vital.
- Adolescent gender may moderate the impact of emotion socialization on social outcomes.
Purpose of the Study:
- To examine longitudinal, transactional associations between parental emotion socialization and adolescent social adjustment.
- To investigate the moderating role of adolescent gender in these relationships.
- To explore bidirectional influences between parents and adolescents over time.
Main Methods:
- Longitudinal study with 87 adolescent-parent dyads across 8th, 9th, and 10th grades.
- Adolescents reported peer victimization and parental emotion socialization.
- Parents reported youth prosocial behavior and peer relation problems.
- Hierarchical linear modeling was used to analyze transactional associations.
Main Results:
- Transactional associations were found between parental responses and adolescent social adjustment.
- Parental supportive emotion socialization decreased peer victimization for girls, but not boys.
- Increased parental supportive responses correlated with decreased peer problems and increased prosocial behavior for all adolescents.
- Adolescent prosocial behavior increases were linked to increased parental supportive responses and decreased unsupportive responses.
Conclusions:
- Parent emotion socialization and adolescent social adjustment exhibit mutual influence.
- Adolescent girls show a unique benefit from supportive parental emotion socialization regarding peer victimization.
- Findings highlight the importance of considering gender in understanding parent-child dynamics and social development.
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