Emotion dynamics among late adolescents: The role of parental privacy invasion perceptions
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AbstractPrior studies have examined emotional distress immediately following parental privacy invasion experiences (Petronio, 1994, 2010), but have not yet investigated whether parental invasion is linked to longer-term emotion dysregulation. Research has also indicated a continued need to understand parenting and emotional development during late adolescence (Morris et al., 2017) and a need to consider the positive aspects of emotion regulation (Carl et al., 2013). This study investigated the link between parental privacy invasion perceptions and longer-term emotion regulation, as reflected by the frequency and lability of negative and positive emotional states over a full academic year.
Participants were 349 first-year university students (60.2% female) in Hong Kong (MT1 = 18.20, SDT1 = 1.10). Data collection occurred during a major wave of the COVID-19 lockdown, a time of heightened stress in which family members experienced increased proximity to one another and limited extra-familial social interactions. Youth self-reported parental invasion perceptions and negative and positive emotions 16 times at bi-weekly intervals. Latent class growth analyses divided participants into naturally-occurring groups of Higher Invasion (25.2%), Moderate Invasion (46.9%), and Lower Invasion perceptions (28.9%; see Fig. 1 and Table 1). A one-way MANCOVA with gender and family monthly income as covariates tested for group differences regarding negative and positive emotion dynamics, indexed by frequency (means), variability (within-person variance), and instability (mean square of successive differences and probability of acute change). Results showed that the Higher Invasion and Moderate Invasion groups reported greater negative emotion frequency, variability, and instability over time, compared to the Lower Invasion group (see Table 2). However, differences between groups were not significant regarding frequency, variability, and instability of positive emotions. Findings support the theoretical notion that prolonged and higher levels of parental invasion can disrupt longer-term intrapersonal regulatory functions served by privacy (Newell, 1994, 1998), especially regarding youth’s ability to manage negative emotions. Results underscore the need for practitioners to help parents understand how behaviors that intrude on youth’s personal matters could be counterproductive to their childrearing goal of fostering autonomous self-regulation, even in later stages of youth development.
Participants were 349 first-year university students (60.2% female) in Hong Kong (MT1 = 18.20, SDT1 = 1.10). Data collection occurred during a major wave of the COVID-19 lockdown, a time of heightened stress in which family members experienced increased proximity to one another and limited extra-familial social interactions. Youth self-reported parental invasion perceptions and negative and positive emotions 16 times at bi-weekly intervals. Latent class growth analyses divided participants into naturally-occurring groups of Higher Invasion (25.2%), Moderate Invasion (46.9%), and Lower Invasion perceptions (28.9%; see Fig. 1 and Table 1). A one-way MANCOVA with gender and family monthly income as covariates tested for group differences regarding negative and positive emotion dynamics, indexed by frequency (means), variability (within-person variance), and instability (mean square of successive differences and probability of acute change). Results showed that the Higher Invasion and Moderate Invasion groups reported greater negative emotion frequency, variability, and instability over time, compared to the Lower Invasion group (see Table 2). However, differences between groups were not significant regarding frequency, variability, and instability of positive emotions. Findings support the theoretical notion that prolonged and higher levels of parental invasion can disrupt longer-term intrapersonal regulatory functions served by privacy (Newell, 1994, 1998), especially regarding youth’s ability to manage negative emotions. Results underscore the need for practitioners to help parents understand how behaviors that intrude on youth’s personal matters could be counterproductive to their childrearing goal of fostering autonomous self-regulation, even in later stages of youth development.
Acceptance Date07/02/2024
All Author(s) ListWang Y., Hawk S.T.
Name of ConferenceSociety for Research on Adolescence 2024 Annual Meeting
Start Date of Conference18/04/2024
End Date of Conference20/04/2024
Place of ConferenceChicago
Country/Region of ConferenceUnited States of America
Year2024
LanguagesEnglish-United States
