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Are They Listening? Parental Social Coaching and Parenting Emotional Climate Predict Adolescent Receptivity
Author(s) -
Gregson Kim D.,
Erath Stephen A.,
Pettit Gregory S.,
Tu Kelly M.
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of research on adolescence
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.342
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1532-7795
pISSN - 1050-8392
DOI - 10.1111/jora.12222
Subject(s) - psychology , coaching , developmental psychology , receptivity , hostility , prosocial behavior , active listening , parenting styles , context (archaeology) , clinical psychology , philosophy , paleontology , communication , epistemology , psychotherapist , biology
Associations linking parenting emotional climate and quality of parental social coaching with young adolescents' receptivity to parental social coaching were examined ( N = 80). Parenting emotional climate was assessed with adolescent‐reported parental warmth and hostility. Quality of parental social coaching (i.e., prosocial advice, benign framing) was assessed via parent‐report and behavioral observations during a parent–adolescent discussion about negative peer evaluation. An adolescent receptivity latent variable score was derived from observations of adolescents’ behavior during the discussion, change in adolescents’ peer response plan following the discussion, and adolescent‐reported tendency to seek social advice from the parent. Parenting climate moderated associations between coaching and receptivity: Higher quality coaching was associated with greater receptivity in the context of a more positive climate. Analyses suggested a stronger association between coaching and receptivity among younger compared to older adolescents.