Adult Children's Daily Experiences With Parental Advice: The Importance of Life Problems and Relationship Quality.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Parents often provide advice to their adult children during their everyday interactions. This study investigated young adult children's daily experiences with parental advice in U.S. families. Specifically, the study examined how receiving advice and evaluations of parental advice were associated with children's life problems, parent-child relationship quality, and daily mood.

Methods

Young adult children (aged 18-30 years; participant N = 152) reported whether they received any advice and perceived any unwanted advice from each parent (parent N = 235) for 7 days using a daily diary design (participant-day N = 948). Adult children also reported their positive and negative mood on each interview day.

Results

Results from multilevel models revealed that adult

SUBMITTER: Wang H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8557851 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature