To endure or to resist? Adolescents' coping with overprotective parenting

Flamant, Nele; Boncquet, Michiel; Petegem, Stijn Van; Haerens, Leen; Beyers, Wim; Soenens, Bart

doi:10.1016/j.appdev.2022.101444

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“…Although parental protection and involvement is beneficial for children when adapted to the child’s developmental needs (e.g., Wilder, 2014), previous research has illustrated that inappropriate levels of parental protection may put children and adolescents at risk for developing psychosocial difficulties. Such negative consequences include depressive symptoms and perceived stress (Shah & Waller, 2000) internalizing and externalizing symptoms (Flamant et al, 2022; Van Petegem et al, 2020), lower academic performance (Masud et al, 2019), and lower life satisfaction and self-acceptance (Herz & Gullone, 1999).…”

Section: Social Anxiety In Adolescence: the Role Of Overprotective Pa...mentioning

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Overprotective parenting and social anxiety in adolescents: The role of emotion regulation

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Mouton

Zimmermann

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Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

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The present study sought to examine the underlying mechanisms through which overprotective parenting relates to social anxiety symptoms in adolescents. Specifically, we tested whether the adolescents’ emotion regulation strategies of dysregulation, suppression, and integration, played an intervening role in the association between perceived maternal and paternal overprotection and social anxiety symptoms in adolescents. A sample of 278 Swiss adolescents filled out questionnaires assessing perceived overprotective parenting, social anxiety symptoms and emotion regulation. Results indicated that perceived overprotective parenting was significantly associated with adolescents’ social anxiety symptoms. Furthermore, structural equation modeling analyses indicated that emotional dysregulation, in particular, intervenes in the association between both maternal and paternal overprotection and social anxiety. These findings highlight emotion regulation difficulties as a potential mechanism underlying the association between parental overprotection and social anxiety, suggesting that adolescents’ maladaptive emotion regulation strategies as well as overprotecting parenting could be targeted when treating social anxiety symptoms.

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Section: Social Anxiety In Adolescence: the Role Of Overprotective Pa...mentioning

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Overprotective parenting and social anxiety in adolescents: The role of emotion regulation

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Dyadic Resistance in Parent‐Adolescent Interactions During the Transition to High School

Ji,

Marshall,

Charles

2024

Journal of Adolescence

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IntroductionAlthough prior research has examined adolescents' resistance to parental control, the dyadic level of analysis has been overlooked. This study attended to how a Canadian sample of parents and adolescents engaged in resisting one another by observing moment‐to‐moment actions as they discussed the upcoming transition to high school.MethodsA secondary analysis of data collected from 2010 to 2012 using the Action‐Project Method was conducted. The sample of 27 parent‐adolescent dyads (23 mothers; 4 fathers); 13 boys, 14 girls (Mean youth age = 13.3) was recruited from two urban centers. Videorecorded self‐directed conversations were immediately followed by open‐ended video recall interviews. A novel way of analyzing data at the dyadic level of analysis was developed based on critical reflexive thematic analysis guided by social constructionist theory.ResultsResistance was observed at least once in 23 of the 27 conversations (total = 97, range = 0−9, Mean = 3.63, SD = 2.69). Four distinct themes were developed: Reminding of and then defending the “constant battle” lines, Cautious avoidance, the Nudging match, and No point anymore and minimal responses. Dyads varied in frequency and number of themes in their conversations with 78.56% engaging in more than one theme. Most differences came to a trickling of resistance wherein members did not agree but continued to interact without extending the resistance further.ConclusionsA dyad‐centric approach to analysis was useful for observing how parents and adolescents engaged in resistance together. Our findings suggest that resistance can be seen as a dyadic concept that reflects a personalized relationship history that has implications for parent and youth identity development.

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Perceived Overprotective Parenting and Identity Synthesis and Confusion in Georgian Emerging Adults: The Intervening Role of Goal Engagement and Disengagement

Skhirtladze,

Van Petegem

2024

J Adult Dev

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To endure or to resist? Adolescents' coping with overprotective parenting

Cited by 8 publications

References 58 publications

Overprotective parenting and social anxiety in adolescents: The role of emotion regulation

Overprotective parenting and social anxiety in adolescents: The role of emotion regulation

Dyadic Resistance in Parent‐Adolescent Interactions During the Transition to High School

Perceived Overprotective Parenting and Identity Synthesis and Confusion in Georgian Emerging Adults: The Intervening Role of Goal Engagement and Disengagement

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