Social reorientation of emotion regulation: Changing roles of family and peers during adolescence.

ABSTRACT: The emotional climate of the family and peer group is theorized to play a central role in the development of emotion regulation (ER) in children and adolescents, such that warmer, more supportive environments promote more effective ER. However, most studies demonstrating associations between social interactions and ER use have focused on individual differences in the regulation of negative affect. This study is the first to investigate whether social interactions with family versus peers are differentially associated with ER, of both negative and positive affect, using a unique multi-timescale approach in which daily assessments were nested within a longitudinal design. Our sample included 112 youths, ages 8-15 at baseline and racially/ethnically representative of our northeast American re

SUBMITTER: Ho EJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12353143 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature