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25-03-2019 | Original Paper

Adolescent Temperament, but Not Age or Gender, Is Associated with Parental Socialization of Positive Affect

Auteurs: Alex C. Nyquist, Joseph W. Fredrick, Aaron M. Luebbe

Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Child and Family Studies | Uitgave 6/2019

Abstract

Objectives

Parents are a critical influence on adolescents’ expressions of positive affect (PA; happiness, excitement), which are important components of adaptive emotional development during this developmental period. Despite a recent proliferation of studies examining outcomes of parental response to PA, limited research has explored unique adolescent characteristics that relate to parents’ specific responses to adolescent PA. Thus, the current study examined the contribution of specific adolescent characteristics (temperament, age, and gender) on dampening and enhancing responses to PA.

Methods

Parents (n= 371, 49.6% mothers) of adolescents between ages 10 and 17 years (M_age= 13.5 years, 46.4% female) recruited thru Amazon Mechanical Turk completed a series of questionnaires on their offspring’s temperament and their enhancing and dampening responses to youth PA.

Results

Over and above parental age and gender, parent-reported adolescent positive emotionality and effortful control were uniquely related to dampening responses; however, all temperament dimensions were unrelated to enhancing responses. Adolescent age and gender were unrelated to parental PA socialization and did not moderate links between parent-reported temperament and parental dampening responses; however, there was a significant three-way inter action for temperament, age and gender for parental enhancing responses.

Conclusions

Overall the findings suggest that adolescents low in effortful control and positive emotionality elicit more parental dampening responses to PA. Future research is needed to clarify the factors that contribute to parents’ enhancing of PA.

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Titel: Adolescent Temperament, but Not Age or Gender, Is Associated with Parental Socialization of Positive Affect
Auteurs: Alex C. Nyquist
Joseph W. Fredrick
Aaron M. Luebbe
Publicatiedatum: 25-03-2019
Uitgeverij: Springer US
Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Child and Family Studies / Uitgave 6/2019
Print ISSN: 1062-1024
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-2843
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-019-01379-8

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