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Overprotective parenting and social anxiety in adolescents

The role of emotion regulation

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ID2926699
AuthorsLouise Mathijs (0000-0001-6798-5914, Université Libre de Bruxelles, corresponding author), Bénédicte Mouton (0000-0002-8029-8972, Université Libre de Bruxelles), Grégoire Zimmermann (0000-0002-4460-520X, Family and Development Research Center (FADO), University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland), Stijn Van Petegem (0000-0001-9956-0363, Université Libre de Bruxelles)
Year2024
Volume41
Issue2
Pages413-434
Publication date2024-02-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Social and Personal Relationships (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0265-4075 • E-ISSN: 1460-3608
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/02654075231173722
OpenAlexW4372247838
LanguageEN
Citations received21
References cited88

The present study sought to examine the underlying mechanisms through which overprotective parenting relates to social anxiety symptoms in adolescents. Specifically, we tested whether the adolescents' emotion regulation strategies of dysregulation, suppression, and integration, played an intervening role in the association between perceived maternal and paternal overprotection and social anxiety symptoms in adolescents. A sample of 278 Swiss adolescents filled out questionnaires assessing perceived overprotective parenting, social anxiety symptoms and emotion regulation. Results indicated that perceived overprotective parenting was significantly associated with adolescents' social anxiety symptoms. Furthermore, structural equation modeling analyses indicated that emotional dysregulation, in particular, intervenes in the association between both maternal and paternal overprotection and social anxiety. These findings highlight emotion regulation difficulties as a potential mechanism underlying the association between parental overprotection and social anxiety, suggesting that adolescents' maladaptive emotion regulation strategies as well as overprotecting parenting could be targeted when treating social anxiety symptoms

Anxiety · Association (psychology · Developmental psychology · Mechanism (biology · Psychiatry · Psychotherapist · Social anxiety · Structural equation modeling · Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development · Clinical Psychology · Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum · Psychology

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Citations per year10,5
Citation span2024 - 2026 (3)
Citation velocitycurrent
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