Parenting Journal · Volume 1 · Issue 1 · Licensed source edition
The Interplay of Parental Response to Anger, Adolescent Anger Regulation, and Externalizing and Internalizing Problems: A Longitudinal Study
Originally published 2021-03-12 · Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology
Springer Science and Business Media LLC · DOI 10.1007/s10802-021-00795-z ↗
Editorial reading guide · Respect
How do a teenager’s anger and a parent’s response shape one another over time?
The study treats respectful anger responses as part of a two-way relationship: parents influence adolescents, and adolescents’ difficulties also influence parents’ reactions.
Who was studied?
634 adolescents and their parents, predominantly White German families
Age / stage: Adolescents followed from grades 6 to 9; mostly 11–12 at baseline
Read with three questions
- What distinguished parent-directed, adolescent-directed and reciprocal models?
- How did findings differ for internalizing and externalizing problems?
- How did missing data and sample composition affect representativeness?
Keep the limits in view
The study was observational and lost participants with incomplete longitudinal data. Some constructs lacked both informants at every wave, and the sample was less culturally and socioeconomically diverse than the broader population.
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Nantje Otterpohl; Elke Wild; Sophie S. Havighurst; Joachim Stiensmeier-Pelster; Christiane E. Kehoe (2021). The Interplay of Parental Response to Anger, Adolescent Anger Regulation, and Externalizing and Internalizing Problems: A Longitudinal Study Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10802-021-00795-z
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