Mean-level correspondence and moment-to-moment synchrony in adolescent and parent affect: Exploring associations with adolescent age and internalizing and externalizing symptoms.

ABSTRACT: Interactions with parents are integral in shaping the development of children's emotional processes. Important aspects of these interactions are overall (mean level) affective experience and affective synchrony (linkages between parent and child affect across time). Respectively, mean-level affect and affective synchrony reflect aspects of the content and structure of dyadic interactions. Most research on parent-child affect during dyadic interactions has focused on infancy and early childhood; adolescence, however, is a key period for both normative emotional development and the emergence of emotional disorders. We examined affect in early to mid-adolescents (N = 55, M_age = 12.27) and their parents using a video-mediated recall task of 10-min conflict-topic discus

SUBMITTER: Henry LM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9881583 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature