Biological sensitivity to adolescent-parent discrepancies in perceived parental warmth.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Parenting behaviors are formative to the psychological development of young people; however, parent and adolescent perceptions of parenting are only moderately correlated with each other. Whereas discrepant perceptions may represent a normative process of deindividuation from caregivers in some adolescents, in others a discrepancy might predict psychological maladjustment. The biological sensitivity to context model provides a framework from which individual differences in development can be estimated in adolescents whose perceptions of parenting diverge from those of their parents.

Methods

At baseline we obtained diurnal cortisol samples from US adolescents (M = 13.37 years of age, SD = 1.06) as well as parents' and adolescents' ratings of parental warmth; we o

SUBMITTER: Buthmann JL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10550797 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature