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Developmental Stage-Specific Effects of Parenting on Adolescents’ Emotion Regulation: A Longitudinal Study From Infancy to Late Adolescence

The quality of parenting shapes the development of children’s emotion regulation. However, the relative importance of parenting in different developmental stages, indicative of sensitive periods, has rarely been studied. Therefore, we formulated four hypothetical developmental timing models to test...

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Autores principales: Tammilehto, Jaakko, Punamäki, Raija-Leena, Flykt, Marjo, Vänskä, Mervi, Heikkilä, Lotta M., Lipsanen, Jari, Poikkeus, Piia, Tiitinen, Aila, Lindblom, Jallu
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8211896/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34149494
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.582770
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author Tammilehto, Jaakko
Punamäki, Raija-Leena
Flykt, Marjo
Vänskä, Mervi
Heikkilä, Lotta M.
Lipsanen, Jari
Poikkeus, Piia
Tiitinen, Aila
Lindblom, Jallu
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Punamäki, Raija-Leena
Flykt, Marjo
Vänskä, Mervi
Heikkilä, Lotta M.
Lipsanen, Jari
Poikkeus, Piia
Tiitinen, Aila
Lindblom, Jallu
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description The quality of parenting shapes the development of children’s emotion regulation. However, the relative importance of parenting in different developmental stages, indicative of sensitive periods, has rarely been studied. Therefore, we formulated four hypothetical developmental timing models to test the stage-specific effects of mothering and fathering in terms of parental autonomy and intimacy in infancy, middle childhood, and late adolescence on adolescents’ emotion regulation. The emotion regulation included reappraisal, suppression, and rumination. We hypothesized that both mothering and fathering in each developmental stage contribute unique effects to adolescents’ emotion regulation patterns. The participants were 885 families followed from pregnancy to late adolescence. This preregistered study used data at the children’s ages of 1 year, 7 to 8 years, and 18 years. At each measurement point, maternal and paternal autonomy and intimacy were assessed with self- and partner reports using the Subjective Family Picture Test. At the age of 18 years, adolescents’ reappraisal and suppression were assessed using the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire and rumination using the Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire. Stage-specific effects were tested comparing structural equation models. Against our hypotheses, the results showed no effects of mothering or fathering in infancy, middle childhood, or late adolescence on adolescents’ emotion regulation patterns. The results were consistent irrespective of both the reporter (i.e., self or partner) and the parental dimension (i.e., autonomy or intimacy). In addition to our main results, there were relatively low agreement between the parents in each other’s parenting and descriptive discontinuity of parenting across time (i.e., configural measurement invariance). Overall, we found no support for the stage-specific effects of parent-reported parenting in infancy, middle childhood, or late adolescence on adolescents’ emotion regulation. Instead, our findings might reflect the high developmental plasticity of emotion regulation from infancy to late adolescence.
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spelling pubmed-82118962021-06-19 Developmental Stage-Specific Effects of Parenting on Adolescents’ Emotion Regulation: A Longitudinal Study From Infancy to Late Adolescence Tammilehto, Jaakko Punamäki, Raija-Leena Flykt, Marjo Vänskä, Mervi Heikkilä, Lotta M. Lipsanen, Jari Poikkeus, Piia Tiitinen, Aila Lindblom, Jallu Front Psychol Psychology The quality of parenting shapes the development of children’s emotion regulation. However, the relative importance of parenting in different developmental stages, indicative of sensitive periods, has rarely been studied. Therefore, we formulated four hypothetical developmental timing models to test the stage-specific effects of mothering and fathering in terms of parental autonomy and intimacy in infancy, middle childhood, and late adolescence on adolescents’ emotion regulation. The emotion regulation included reappraisal, suppression, and rumination. We hypothesized that both mothering and fathering in each developmental stage contribute unique effects to adolescents’ emotion regulation patterns. The participants were 885 families followed from pregnancy to late adolescence. This preregistered study used data at the children’s ages of 1 year, 7 to 8 years, and 18 years. At each measurement point, maternal and paternal autonomy and intimacy were assessed with self- and partner reports using the Subjective Family Picture Test. At the age of 18 years, adolescents’ reappraisal and suppression were assessed using the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire and rumination using the Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire. Stage-specific effects were tested comparing structural equation models. Against our hypotheses, the results showed no effects of mothering or fathering in infancy, middle childhood, or late adolescence on adolescents’ emotion regulation patterns. The results were consistent irrespective of both the reporter (i.e., self or partner) and the parental dimension (i.e., autonomy or intimacy). In addition to our main results, there were relatively low agreement between the parents in each other’s parenting and descriptive discontinuity of parenting across time (i.e., configural measurement invariance). Overall, we found no support for the stage-specific effects of parent-reported parenting in infancy, middle childhood, or late adolescence on adolescents’ emotion regulation. Instead, our findings might reflect the high developmental plasticity of emotion regulation from infancy to late adolescence. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-06-04 /pmc/articles/PMC8211896/ /pubmed/34149494 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.582770 Text en Copyright © 2021 Tammilehto, Punamäki, Flykt, Vänskä, Heikkilä, Lipsanen, Poikkeus, Tiitinen and Lindblom. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
spellingShingle Psychology
Tammilehto, Jaakko
Punamäki, Raija-Leena
Flykt, Marjo
Vänskä, Mervi
Heikkilä, Lotta M.
Lipsanen, Jari
Poikkeus, Piia
Tiitinen, Aila
Lindblom, Jallu
Developmental Stage-Specific Effects of Parenting on Adolescents’ Emotion Regulation: A Longitudinal Study From Infancy to Late Adolescence
title Developmental Stage-Specific Effects of Parenting on Adolescents’ Emotion Regulation: A Longitudinal Study From Infancy to Late Adolescence
title_full Developmental Stage-Specific Effects of Parenting on Adolescents’ Emotion Regulation: A Longitudinal Study From Infancy to Late Adolescence
title_fullStr Developmental Stage-Specific Effects of Parenting on Adolescents’ Emotion Regulation: A Longitudinal Study From Infancy to Late Adolescence
title_full_unstemmed Developmental Stage-Specific Effects of Parenting on Adolescents’ Emotion Regulation: A Longitudinal Study From Infancy to Late Adolescence
title_short Developmental Stage-Specific Effects of Parenting on Adolescents’ Emotion Regulation: A Longitudinal Study From Infancy to Late Adolescence
title_sort developmental stage-specific effects of parenting on adolescents’ emotion regulation: a longitudinal study from infancy to late adolescence
topic Psychology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8211896/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34149494
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.582770
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