Displays of negative facial affect during parent-adolescent conflict and the bidirectional transmission of social anxiety.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Symptoms of social anxiety rise rapidly during adolescence, particularly for girls. Pervasive displays of parental negative affect may increase adolescents' fear of negative evaluation (FNE), thereby increasing risk for social anxiety symptoms. Adolescent displays of negative affect may also exacerbate parents' social anxiety symptoms (via FNE of their child or their parenting skills), yet little research has tested transactional pathways of transmission in families. By early adolescence, rates of parent-child conflict rise, and offspring become increasingly independent in their own displays of negative affect, increasing opportunities for hypothesized transactional pathways between parent-adolescent displays of negative affect and social anxiety symptoms.

Methods

SUBMITTER: Woody ML 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8986877 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature