Adolescence

Like No Other? A Family-Specific Network Approach to Parenting Adolescents

Numerous theories suggest that parents and adolescents influence each other in diverse ways; however, whether these influences differ between subgroups or are unique to each family remains uncertain. Therefore, this study explored whether data-driven …

Quaranteens; Prepandemic relationship quality and changes in adolescent internalizing problems during the COVID-19 pandemic

The direction of effects between parenting and adolescent affective well-being in everyday life is family specific

Numerous theories and empirical studies have suggested that parents and their adolescent children reciprocally influence each other. As most studies have focused on group-level patterns, however, it remained unclear whether this was true for every …

Overparenting in adolescents' everyday life; Development and validation of the momentary overparenting scale

Unraveling the Bidirectional Associations between Parental Knowledge and Children’s Externalizing Behavior

Although within- and between-family bidirectional associations between parental knowledge and children’s externalizing behavior have been theoretically proposed, studies that unravel these associations simultaneously remain scarce. This study …

Better, for worse, or both? Testing environmental sensitivity models with parenting at the level of individual families

Daily affect intensity and variability of adolescents and their parents before and during a COVID-19 lockdown

Understanding the factors that predict adolescent delinquency is a key topic in parenting research. An open question is whether prior results indicating relative differences between families reflect the dynamic processes occurring within families. …

Universal ingredients to parenting teens; parental warmth and autonomy support promote adolescent well-being in most families

Testing Transactional Processes between Parental Support and Adolescent Depressive Symptoms; From a Daily to a Biennial Timescale

This multi-sample study tested bidirectional within-family associations between parental support and adolescents’ depressive symptoms on varying measurement intervals; Daily, two-weekly, three-monthly, annual, and biennial. Pre-registered random …

Parent–adolescent interaction quality and adolescent affect An experience sampling study on effect heterogeneity