ORCID ID
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1463-2637
Date Awarded
2020
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Science (M.Sc.)
Department
Psychology
Advisor
Janice L Zeman
Committee Member
Danielle H Dallaire
Committee Member
Joanna Schug
Abstract
Parental and peer emotion socialization as well as adolescent emotion regulation are significant predictors of adolescent psychopathology (Gaertner et al., 2010; Shortt et al., 2016). When a parent is unsupportive of their youth's emotional displays, the adolescent is at greater risk for internalizing disorders (Shewark & Blandon, 2015). During adolescence, friends are also socializers of youth's emotions and those peers who respond in validating ways may buffer against the development of internalizing disorders (Bowker & Rubin, 2009). Research analyzing these constructs has relied almost exclusively on one form of measurement (e.g., McKee et al., 2018) and often emotion regulation has been assessed as general negative affect (e.g., Silk et al., 2003). To fill these gaps in the literature, the present study examines negative parent emotion socialization's effect on adolescent internalizing symptoms as mediated by emotion regulation and moderated by friend emotion socialization. Guided by the functionalist theory of emotion (Barrett & Campos, 1987), we examined emotion regulation by emotion type (sadness/worry and anger) and used multiple methods and reporters. The present study sought to replicate and expand previous literature by constructing a conditional indirect effects model with latent variables and assessing discrete negative emotions. Gender effects were also examined. Participants were 132 adolescents (Mage = 16.30, 53.0% girls, 80.3% White, middle-class) and their parents (87.1% mothers). Youth completed the Multidimensional Anxiety Scale for Children (March, 1997), the Child Depression Inventory (Kovacs, 1992), the Children's Sadness, Worry and Anger Management Scales (Zeman et al., 2001), and the You and Your Friends Questionnaire (Klimes-Dougan et al., 2014; evaluated peer emotion socialization). Parents completed the Child Behavior Checklist (Achenbach, 1991). Parent-adolescent dyads engaged in an interaction task involving discussions about specific events with the adolescent's best friend. These video-taped interactions were coded for different aspects of parental emotion socialization.
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.21220/s2-z25v-d037
Rights
© The Author
Recommended Citation
Miller, Molly Elizabeth, "Parent And Peer Emotion Socialization As Predictors Of Adolescent Internalizing Symptomatology: The Role Of Emotion Via Structural Equation Modeling" (2020). Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects. William & Mary. Paper 1593091578.
http://dx.doi.org/10.21220/s2-z25v-d037
