Linking Maternal Socialization of Emotion Regulation to Adolescents’ Co-Rumination With Peers

Publication Date

11-2017

Document Type

Article

Organizational Units

College of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences, Psychology

Keywords

Emotion regulation, Parent-adolescent relationships, Parenting processes/practices, Peers, Risk/resilience

Abstract

Mounting research supports that co-rumination, the tendency to seek peer support by engaging in extensive negatively focused discussion, is a risk factor for adolescent psychopathology. It is unclear, though, how this interpersonal tendency develops. Parental responses to adolescents' negative affect likely shape how youth utilize peer relationships to regulate distress, as they shift to reliance on peer support during this developmental stage. For example, nonsupportive parental responses may fail to instill healthy regulation strategies, resulting in ineffective forms of peer support, such as co-rumination. Conversely, high levels of supportive parental responses to adolescents' negative affect may motivate youth to also express more negative affect with peers, leading to co-rumination. Eighty-nine healthy adolescents (9-17) and their mothers completed surveys and a support-seeking interaction. Only supportive maternal responses, including maternal affection, were associated with adolescents' co-rumination. These analyses indicate that some forms of parental support are associated with adolescents' tendency to co-ruminate.

Copyright Date

7-13-2016

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Stone, L. B., Silk, J. S., Oppenheimer, C. W., Benoit Allen, K., Waller, J. M., & Dahl, R. E. (2017). Linking maternal socialization of emotion regulation to adolescents’ co-rumination with peers. The Journal of Early Adolescence, 37(9), 1341-1355. https://doi.org/10.1177/0272431616659558

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Rights Holder

Lindsey B. Stone, Jennifer S. Silk, Caroline W. Oppenheimer, Kristy Benoit Allen, Jennifer M. Waller, and Ronald E. Dahl

Provenance

Received from CHORUS

File Format

application/pdf

Language

English (eng)

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15 pgs

File Size

91 KB

Publication Title

The Journal of Early Adolescence

Volume

37

Issue

9

First Page

1341

Last Page

1355

ISSN

1552-5449

PubMed ID

29307952

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