Youth’s Negative Stereotypes of Teen Emotionality: Reciprocal Relations with Emotional Functioning in Hong Kong and Mainland China

Qu, Yang; Rompilla, David B; Wang, Qian; Ng, Florrie Fei Yin

doi:10.1007/s10964-020-01303-0

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“…In such a pressuring context, parents' adherence to Storm and Stress beliefs about adolescence is an additional risk factor that may fuel, as our results suggest, parental overprotection and parental burnout. In this regard, results of our study support calls by others (e.g., Qu, et al, 2020) to promote strategies countering such largely inaccurate stereotypical representations of adolescence, in particular among parents, teachers and children in early adolescence. Unfortunately, the academic literature has had very reduced impact so far in overturning the dominant discourse and representation of adolescence as a time of Storm and Stress.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 86%

“…Thus, promising schoolbased counterstereotyping interventions such as those proposed and tested by Qu and colleagues (2020) could be adapted for parents, in addition to being more widely developed and evaluated among adolescents. Helping parents to adopt views of adolescence as a responsible and constructive flourishing time (Dahl, et al, 2018;Qu, et al, 2020;Steinberg, 2014;Zimmermann, et al, 2017) could protect them from the temptation of overprotecting their adolescents as well as from the stress associated with over-involvement.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…More recently, the interpretations of results of developmental neuroscience on adolescent brain, especially in the popular press and parenting literature (e.g., Jensen, 2015;Kolbert, 2015), have continued to shape the public perception of adolescence as a period necessarily tumultuous (Sercombe, 2014) by representing the adolescent brain as immature, under construction, or making adolescents vulnerable to risktaking. Thus, existing literature generally suggests that negative beliefs about adolescence are still widely shared in the population, including among parents (Buchanan, et al, 1990;Hines & Paulsen, 2006;Qu et al, 2020).…”

Section: Adolescent Storm and Stressmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Parents’ Storm and Stress Beliefs about Adolescence: Relations with Parental Overprotection and Parental Burnout

Zimmermann

Antonietti

Mageau

et al. 2022

Swiss Psychology Open

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In society and its mass media, adolescence is typically portrayed as a disruptive and rebellious stage of life ("Storm and Stress"). Previous research suggests that the parental adherence to these negative Storm and Stress beliefs about adolescence are persistent and predict subsequent "Storm and Stress" behaviours among their adolescent children. However, the way these beliefs may impact parenting and the experience of being a parent remains unclear and understudied. This study examined associations between parents' Storm and Stress beliefs about adolescence and parental burnout as well as explored the potential mediating role of parental overprotection in this association. Using an Actor-Partner Interdependence Partial Mediation Model, we examined these associations in 146 mother-father dyads (N = 292 parents) of adolescents. Results indicated that mothers and fathers who adhered more strongly to Storm and Stress beliefs about adolescence were more likely to exhibit higher levels of parental burnout. These associations were partially mediated by parental overprotection for both mothers and fathers. The strength of these pathways were found to be similar for both mothers and fathers and no partner effect was observed. These results suggest that countering negative beliefs about adolescence may be beneficial for the quality of parenting and the experience of being a parent.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 86%

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Adolescent Storm and Stressmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Parents’ Storm and Stress Beliefs about Adolescence: Relations with Parental Overprotection and Parental Burnout

Zimmermann

Antonietti

Mageau

et al. 2022

Swiss Psychology Open

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“…At Wave 1, parents’ emotion regulation strategies were examined in terms of their use of cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression, assessed using the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ, Gross & John, 2003 ). The ERQ has been widely used in Chinese populations and showed good reliability (e.g., Soto et al, 2011 ; Qu et al, 2020 ). Regarding cognitive reappraisal, parents rated how true (1 = not at all true , 7 = very true ) each of the six reappraisal items (e.g., “I control my emotions by changing the way I think about the situation I am in” and “When I want to feel less negative emotion, I change the way I’m thinking about the situation”) was of them.…”

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confidence: 99%

Impacts of Parental Burnout on Chinese Youth’s Mental Health: The Role of Parents’ Autonomy Support and Emotion Regulation

Yang

Chen

et al. 2021

J Youth Adolescence

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Parental burnout is a state that parents experience overwhelming exhaustion in their parental role. Given the detrimental impacts of parents’ stress on adolescent development, youth may suffer from undesirable emotional adjustment due to parental burnout. Therefore, it is key to understand the underlying mechanisms through which parental burnout may play a role in youth’s mental health and identify protective factors that may reduce the potential negative impacts. Using a sample of 442 Chinese parent-adolescent dyads (Mean age of youth = 13.35 years; 50% girls), this two-wave longitudinal study examined how parental burnout contributes to youth’s mental health over the span of two months. Moreover, the current research investigated the potential mediating role of autonomy support and the potential moderating role of emotion regulation in the links between parental burnout and youth’s mental health. The results showed that greater parental burnout was predictive of youth’s greater depressive and anxiety symptoms two months later, and such effects were partially mediated by less autonomy-supportive parenting. Notably, the negative effects of parental burnout on autonomy-supportive parenting and youth’s mental health were not significant when parents used more cognitive reappraisal to regulate their emotions. These findings demonstrate the underlying mechanisms of how parental burnout affects youth’s mental health over time and highlight the protective role of healthy emotion regulation against parental burnout.

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“…Response categories ranged from 1 ( strongly disagree ) to 7 ( strongly agree ). The instrument has been demonstrated decent internal reliability and validity with Chinese adolescents (Qu et al, 2020; Zhao & Zhao, 2015). In the current study, the Cronbach’s αs for positive expressivity and negative expressivity were .83 and .80, respectively.…”

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Interpersonal Regulation Questionnaire (IRQ): Psychometric properties and gender differences in Chinese young adolescents.

Ding¹,

He²,

Liu³

et al. 2021

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The Interpersonal Regulation Questionnaire (IRQ) is a scale developed to measure the tendency and efficacy of intrinsic interpersonal emotion regulation across positive and negative affective states. As the psychometric properties of the IRQ across cultures and different ages have not been well established, the current study was conducted to examine the applicability of the translated IRQ in a sample of Chinese young adolescents (initial n = 487; 50.20% are males; M = 14.52 years old, SD = .75). The original four-factor structure of the IRQ (i.e., negative-tendency, negative-efficacy, positive-tendency, and positive-efficacy) and other parsimonious models were examined and compared using confirmatory factor analysis. The results demonstrated that only the correlated-four-factor model had acceptable model fit indices. The internal consistencies of the four subscales were all above .70. Strict measurement invariance (i.e., configural, metric, and scalar) was achieved between males and females. In addition, latent mean comparison showed that females reported higher negative-efficacy and positive-tendency than males, while no gender variations were found for the remaining two factors. The validity of the IRQ was further supported by its convergent-discriminant associations with emotional well-being and distress, emotional expressivity, social competence, empathic responding, cognitive reappraisal, and delinquent behavior. Taken together, the IRQ is a reliable and valid measure for Chinese young adolescents' intrinsic interpersonal emotion regulation. Public Significance StatementThe present study suggests that after being translated to Mandarin, the Interpersonal Regulation Questionnaire (IRQ), which was originally developed by Williams et al. (Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2018, 115, p. 224) to assess the tendency and efficacy of interpersonal emotion regulation in Western adults, applies to Chinese adolescents. It documents that the psychological attribute measured by IRQ may be an important concept universal for broader population groups and cultural contexts.

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Youth’s Negative Stereotypes of Teen Emotionality: Reciprocal Relations with Emotional Functioning in Hong Kong and Mainland China

Cited by 9 publications

References 53 publications

Parents’ Storm and Stress Beliefs about Adolescence: Relations with Parental Overprotection and Parental Burnout

Parents’ Storm and Stress Beliefs about Adolescence: Relations with Parental Overprotection and Parental Burnout

Impacts of Parental Burnout on Chinese Youth’s Mental Health: The Role of Parents’ Autonomy Support and Emotion Regulation

Interpersonal Regulation Questionnaire (IRQ): Psychometric properties and gender differences in Chinese young adolescents.

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