| Institution: | 1. College of Health and Human Development, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA;2. Department of Psychology and Human Development, Peabody College, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA;3. Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA;4. Fralin Biomedical Research Institute, Roanoke, Virginia, USA
Department of Psychology, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA;5. Department of Psychology, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA |
| 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. |
