The direction of effects between parenting and adolescent affective well-being in everyday life is family specific.

ABSTRACT: Numerous theories and empirical studies have suggested that parents and their adolescent children reciprocally influence each other. As most studies have focused on group-level patterns, however, it remained unclear whether this was true for every family. To investigate potential heterogeneity in directionality, we applied a novel idiographic approach to examine the effects between parenting and adolescent well-being in each family separately. For 100 days, 159 Dutch adolescents (M_age = 13.31, 62% female) reported on affective well-being and four parenting dimensions. The family-specific effects of pre-registered ( https://osf.io/7n2jx/ ) dynamic structural equation models indeed revealed that a reciprocal day-to-day association between parenting and adolescent affective well-be

SUBMITTER: Boele S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10522680 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature