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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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
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Language
English (eng)
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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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Publication Title
The Journal of Early Adolescence
Volume
37
Issue
9
First Page
1341
Last Page
1355
ISSN
1552-5449
PubMed ID
29307952
Recommended Citation
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