Citation

Ding R, Wang S, Liu J, He W, Pan J. Fam. Process 2023; ePub(ePub): ePub.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2023, Family Process Institute, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/famp.12946

PMID

37915232

Abstract

Existing literature has documented that parenting links to children's hostile attribution biases (HAB). However, little is known about the role played by parental emotion socialization in children's HAB. To address this research gap, the present study investigated the role of parental responses to children's negative emotions (PRCNE) in predicting adolescents' HAB using a longitudinal study. Adolescents (N = 203; M(age)  = 13.61 years old at Time 1), who were recruited from a city in mainland China, reported on their mothers' PRCNE and their own HAB at two waves over a year. The results showed that mothers' supportive responses (composed of emotion-focused responses and problem-focused responses) significantly predicted adolescents' reduced HAB over time; however, PRCNE including expressive encouragement, minimization, and nonsupportive responses (composed of punitive responses and parental distress) had no significant relation with adolescents' HAB. These findings add to the existing literature investigating antecedents to adolescents' social information processing deficits and biases.

Language: en

Keywords

adolescents; hostile attribution biases; maternal responses to children's negative emotions