eprintid: 10164697 rev_number: 9 eprint_status: archive userid: 699 dir: disk0/10/16/46/97 datestamp: 2023-02-10 13:59:16 lastmod: 2023-02-10 13:59:16 status_changed: 2023-02-10 13:59:16 type: article metadata_visibility: show sword_depositor: 699 creators_name: Nunes, Filipa creators_name: Mota, Catarina Pinheiro creators_name: Ferreira, Tiago creators_name: Schoon, Ingrid creators_name: Matos, Paula Mena title: Parental Meta-Emotion, Attachment to Parents, and Personal Agency in Adolescents ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: B16 divisions: B14 divisions: J81 keywords: Parental meta-emotion; emotion-coaching; attachment to parents; personal agency; adolescence note: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. abstract: Guided by attachment theory, we explored in the present study the links between parental emotioncoaching, attachment to parents, and adolescent’s sense of agency. Further, we examined a possible mediating role of adolescent’s attachment to parents in the association between parental emotion-coaching and sense of agency. All models control for cumulative psychosocial risk, and adolescents’ sex and age, and take into account the reports of both mothers and fathers. The sample included 501 Portuguese families comprising adolescents, their mothers, and their fathers. Adolescents (ages ranged from 15 to 18) reported on their attachment to parents, personal agency, and cumulative psychosocial risk, whereas mothers and fathers independently completed a questionnaire assessing their meta-emotion skills. The results indicate that both mothers’ and fathers’ emotional-coaching are positively associated with the quality of adolescent’s attachment to parents. Nonetheless, parental emotion-coaching are not directly associate with sense of agency. The quality of emotional bond with father is linked to a more positive sense of agency, while relationships characterized by mother’s inhibition of adolescent’s exploration are associated with less positive perceptions of agency. Parental emotion-coaching seems to be associated with the sense of personal agency through the quality of attachment to parents. These results are discussed according to attachment theory taking into account the parents’ importance to adolescents’ development. Our findings provide a first attempt to unravel the possible links between parental emotion-coaching, attachment to parents, and sense of agency; nevertheless, they need to expand. date: 2022 date_type: published publisher: American Psychological Association official_url: https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/fam0000947 oa_status: green full_text_type: other language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_id: 1915501 doi: 10.1037/fam0000947 medium: Print-Electronic pii: 2022-20232-001 lyricists_name: Schoon, Ingrid lyricists_id: ISCHO87 actors_name: Schoon, Ingrid actors_id: ISCHO87 actors_role: owner funding_acknowledgements: UIDB/00050/2020 [Portuguese Science Foundation]; SFRH/BD/133032/2017 [Portuguese Science Foundation] full_text_status: public publication: Journal of Family Psychology volume: 36 number: 6 pagerange: 964-974 pages: 12 event_location: United States citation: Nunes, Filipa; Mota, Catarina Pinheiro; Ferreira, Tiago; Schoon, Ingrid; Matos, Paula Mena; (2022) Parental Meta-Emotion, Attachment to Parents, and Personal Agency in Adolescents. Journal of Family Psychology , 36 (6) pp. 964-974. 10.1037/fam0000947 <https://doi.org/10.1037/fam0000947>. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10164697/2/Schoon_Masked%20manuscript%20-%20FAM-2021-0166R2.pdf