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Parenting, Peer Victimization, and Youth Emotional Experience Predicting Adolescent Adjustment: Effects of Culture and Ethnicity

Wed, April 7, 11:35am to 1:05pm EDT (11:35am to 1:05pm EDT), Virtual

Session Type: Paper Symposium

Abstract

The transition from childhood to adolescence is a period of risk for the onset of internalizing and externalizing problems. Developmental psychopathologists and prevention scientists seek to identify contextual (e.g., peers, family) and individual (e.g., emotions) factors that might account for increased risk of maladaptation in youth. For example, peer victimization—a relatively common experience for youth—is associated with internalizing and externalizing problems. Moreover, there is strong evidence that negative parenting behaviors predict internalizing and externalizing problems in adolescence. In addition, especially frequent and intense experiences of emotions (i.e., daily between- and within-person variability typically examined via ecological momentary assessment; EMA) are predictive of internalizing and externalizing problems. However, these associations may depend on the specific emotion being experienced and may be affected by parenting behaviors as well.
This symposium examines how parenting, peer victimization, and youth emotional experiences affect children’s and adolescents’ adjustment, accounting for the effects of culture and ethnicity.
One paper examined the role of ethnicity of perpetrators and victims in the cross-sectional association between peer victimization and US preadolescents’ internalizing problems. Two other papers capitalized upon EMA to examine (1) relations between positive and negative emotions and internalizing problems in US children and (2) relations among parental monitoring, adolescents’ anger, and externalizing problems in adolescents from Italy and Colombia. A final paper examined the effects of the cultural normativeness harsh discipline on the mediation pathway from harsh discipline to adolescent internalizing problems through rumination in Colombia, Italy, and different ethnic groups from the US.

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