Challenging the dichotomy: Examining parent socialization goals and behaviors regarding positive affect in Bengaluru, India.

ABSTRACT: Parents' responses to youth positive affect (PA) have been dichotomized as enhancing and dampening. This dichotomy may not fit with cultural scripts about emotion in communities where a balance between positive and negative emotions is preferred. To assess parents' PA socialization in a culturally relevant manner for urban, middle-class families in India, we developed a new measure of parental goals about happiness and adapted the Responses to Adolescent Happy Affect Scale (RAHAS). We tested the psychometric properties of these measures and assessed relations among parental socialization goals and behaviors across 5 months. Our sample included 377 adolescent (84.4% girls; M_age = 14.47) and parent (63.9% mothers) dyads, primarily Hindu, in Bengaluru, India. Two parental goals fac

SUBMITTER: Wick SB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11606266 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature