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Parenting Journal · Volume 2 · Issue 4 · Licensed source edition

Parent-adolescent intergenerational transmission of distress: the roles of family climate, adolescents’ self-compassion and mindfulness

Shuying Zhou; Chi Kin Kwan; Yueyue Ai; Ying Ma

Originally published 2025-08-14 · Frontiers in Psychology
Frontiers Media SA · DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1595515 ↗

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How do family members make room for one another on stressful days?

For the Kindness section, this study offers a way to examine family climate and a teenager’s self-compassion in research on distress across generations.

Who was studied?

348 parent-adolescent pairs in a family distress study

Age / stage: 12–18 years

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  1. How did the authors investigate family climate and a teenager’s self-compassion in research on distress across generations?
  2. Whose report describes the parent, the child and the outcome, and where might those reports differ?
  3. Were family climate, distress and self-compassion measured at different times or by different reporters?

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Parent-teen reports of family distress can be interdependent. An intergenerational association does not identify the direction of transmission.

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Shuying Zhou; Chi Kin Kwan; Yueyue Ai; Ying Ma (2025). Parent-adolescent intergenerational transmission of distress: the roles of family climate, adolescents’ self-compassion and mindfulness Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1595515

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