Parental Meta-Emotion, Attachment to Parents, and Personal Agency in Adolescents

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Parental Meta-Emotion, Attachment to Parents, and Personal Agency in Adolescents

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. Green open access

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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.

Type:	Article
Title:	Parental Meta-Emotion, Attachment to Parents, and Personal Agency in Adolescents
Location:	United States
Open access status:	An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI:	10.1037/fam0000947
Publisher version:	https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/fam0000947
Language:	English
Additional information:	This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
Keywords:	Parental meta-emotion; emotion-coaching; attachment to parents; personal agency; adolescence
UCL classification:	UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Social Research Institute
URI:	https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10164697