Family-level profiles of parental reactions to emotions: Longitudinal associations with multi-informant reports of adolescent internalizing and externalizing symptoms
Longitudinal study of associations between family-level emotion socialization and adolescent adjustment is limited. When American children (53.5% girls) were in second grade (N = 213; M<sub>age</sub> = 7.98; data collected 2002-2003), mothers and fathers (79.8% of mothers and 74.2% of fathers were White) reported on their reactions to children's emotions; in seventh, eighth, and ninth grade (M<sub>age</sub> = 13.03, 14.17, 15.29, respectively; data collected 2007-2010), adolescents, mothers, and fathers reported on adolescent internalizing and externalizing symptoms. Four family-level profiles of reactions were identified. Profile differences emerged, suggesting that the emotion dismissing profile was longitudinally associated with elevated adolescent internalizing and externalizing symptoms and that fathering may especially foster child adjustment for families in a divergence profile.
Authors
- Edward Mark Cummings (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5932-606X)
- Sarah Hoegler Dennis (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8765-4450)
- Katherine Edler (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5999-8296)
- Patrick T. Davies (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2725-9736)
- Kristin Valentino (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3882-6409)
- Lijuan Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9702-4380)
Institutions
- University of Notre Dame (US)
- University of Rochester (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Child Development
- Published
- 2024-08-12
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.14154
- Citations
- 3
- Primary Topic
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 1.92
Funders
- National Institute of Mental Health
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development