Real-Time Contingencies of Emotion Socialization during Parent-Adolescent Conflicts
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| Title: | Real-Time Contingencies of Emotion Socialization during Parent-Adolescent Conflicts |
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| Language: | English |
| Authors: | Vanessa E. Martin, Jessica P. Loughe, Tom Hollenstein |
| Source: | Social Development. 2026 35(1). |
| Availability: | Wiley. Available from: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 111 River Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030. Tel: 800-835-6770; e-mail: cs-journals@wiley.com; Web site: https://www.wiley.com/en-us |
| Peer Reviewed: | Y |
| Page Count: | 14 |
| Publication Date: | 2026 |
| Document Type: | Journal Articles Reports - Research |
| Descriptors: | Conflict, Parent Child Relationship, Early Adolescents, Mothers, Socialization, Emotional Response, Affective Behavior, Parent Influence, Predictor Variables, Foreign Countries |
| Geographic Terms: | Canada |
| Assessment and Survey Identifiers: | Inventory of Parent and Peer Attachment, Positive and Negative Affect Schedule |
| DOI: | 10.1111/sode.70045 |
| ISSN: | 0961-205X 1467-9507 |
| Abstract: | Parent-adolescent emotion socialization (ES) is theoretically a moment-to-moment (i.e., real-time), bidirectional process in which emotional moments are opportunities for directing youth's longer-term socioemotional development. However, due to reliance on static and self-report measurement, we know little about this process during this age period. The objective of this study was to examine this process directly by assessing the real-time dynamic interplay of ES behaviors and affect during typical parent-adolescent interactions. These dynamics were measured within a 4-min conflict discussion between mothers and adolescents (12-13-year-olds, N = 164) using the Parent ES in Adolescence coding system to capture the full range of mothers' supportive and unsupportive ES. Real-time adolescents' and mothers' expressed affective valence was also measured. Dynamic structural equation modeling (SEM) was used to analyze how affect predicted ES and how ES predicted affect across 5-s increments, with dyadic relationship quality (DRQ) and adolescent gender as between-dyad predictors. Findings revealed that adolescent affect (A-Affect) positively predicted Supportive-ES but did not predict Unsupportive-ES. Supportive-ES was followed by a decrease in Adolescents' and Mothers' Affect, whereas Unsupportive-ES had the opposite effect. Gender did not predict differences in real-time effects, but higher DRQ was related to more flexible dyadic affect dynamics and greater increases in A-Affect following Unsupportive-ES. Findings are discussed as both the product of ES processes that had transpired prior to our time of measurement, as well as a potential predictor of future socioemotional development. |
| Abstractor: | As Provided |
| Entry Date: | 2026 |
| Accession Number: | EJ1495482 |
| Database: | ERIC |
| Abstract: | Parent-adolescent emotion socialization (ES) is theoretically a moment-to-moment (i.e., real-time), bidirectional process in which emotional moments are opportunities for directing youth's longer-term socioemotional development. However, due to reliance on static and self-report measurement, we know little about this process during this age period. The objective of this study was to examine this process directly by assessing the real-time dynamic interplay of ES behaviors and affect during typical parent-adolescent interactions. These dynamics were measured within a 4-min conflict discussion between mothers and adolescents (12-13-year-olds, N = 164) using the Parent ES in Adolescence coding system to capture the full range of mothers' supportive and unsupportive ES. Real-time adolescents' and mothers' expressed affective valence was also measured. Dynamic structural equation modeling (SEM) was used to analyze how affect predicted ES and how ES predicted affect across 5-s increments, with dyadic relationship quality (DRQ) and adolescent gender as between-dyad predictors. Findings revealed that adolescent affect (A-Affect) positively predicted Supportive-ES but did not predict Unsupportive-ES. Supportive-ES was followed by a decrease in Adolescents' and Mothers' Affect, whereas Unsupportive-ES had the opposite effect. Gender did not predict differences in real-time effects, but higher DRQ was related to more flexible dyadic affect dynamics and greater increases in A-Affect following Unsupportive-ES. Findings are discussed as both the product of ES processes that had transpired prior to our time of measurement, as well as a potential predictor of future socioemotional development. |
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| ISSN: | 0961-205X 1467-9507 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/sode.70045 |
