Universal ingredients to parenting teens: parental warmth and autonomy support promote adolescent well-being in most families.

ABSTRACT: Even though each adolescent is unique, some ingredients for development may still be universal. According to Self-Determination Theory, every adolescent's well-being should benefit when parents provide warmth and autonomy. To rigorously test this idea that each family has similar mechanisms, we followed 159 Dutch parent-adolescent dyads (parent: M_age = 45.34, 79% mothers; adolescent: M_age = 13.31, 62% female) for more than three months, and collected 100 consecutive daily reports of parental warmth, autonomy support, positive and negative affect. Positive effects of parental warmth and autonomy support upon well-being were found in 91-98% of the families. Preregistered analysis of 14,546 daily reports confirmed that effects of parenting differed in strength (i.e., som

SUBMITTER: Bulow A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9546835 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature