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. 2023 Jun;33(2):632-640.
doi: 10.1111/jora.12831. Epub 2023 Jan 19.

Parenting, emotion regulation, and externalizing symptomatology as adolescent antecedents to young adult health risk behaviors

Toria Herd  1 , Karen Jacques  2 , Alexis Brieant  3 , Jennie G Noll  1 , Brooks King-Casas  4   5 , Jungmeen Kim-Spoon  5
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Parenting, emotion regulation, and externalizing symptomatology as adolescent antecedents to young adult health risk behaviors

Toria Herd et al. J Res Adolesc. 2023 Jun.

Abstract

This study used longitudinal data to elucidate how trajectories of negative parenting across adolescence are associated with young adult health risk behaviors (HRBs) by testing difficulties with emotion regulation and externalizing symptomatology as sequential underlying mediators. The sample included 167 adolescents (53% males, Mage = 14 at Time 1 and Mage = 18 at Time 5) who were assessed five times. Adolescents self-reported on negative parenting, emotion regulation, externalizing symptomatology, and engagement in HRBs. Results suggest that increasingly negative parenting across adolescence has adverse consequences for emotion regulation development and in turn, externalizing symptomatology, which confers risk for young adult HRBs. Results offer insights towards mechanisms for prevention and intervention and public health policy aimed at reducing the prevalence and consequences of engagement in HRBs.

Keywords: emotion regulation; externalizing symptomatology; health risk behaviors; negative parenting.

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Growth trajectories for negative parenting from time 1 to time 4 (adapted from Herd et al., 2021)
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Mediation model testing effects of negative parenting on health risk behaviors through emotion regulation development and externalizing symptomatology. Note: Standardized estimates are presented. *p < .05; **p < .01; ***p < .001.
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