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Saturday, 12:10 PM - 1:40 PM

Daily Family Stressors and Supports: Implications for Mood, Behaviors, and Relationships Across Childhood and Adolescence

Children’s emotional experiences are heavily shaped by contextual stressors and supports within and outside of the family. Stressors and supports may fluctuate greatly day-to-day, and children may experience variability in their responses. These four theory-driven studies utilize daily diary designs and advanced statistical approaches to illustrate how seemingly typical experiences relate to daily emotions, behaviors, and relationships across childhood and adolescence.

Study 1 examined how the interparental relationship and parent-child relationship may be susceptible to spillover effects from parents’ daily financial concerns. The authors identified parental-gender-specific pathways by which stressors like financial stress may bleed into family relationship dynamics. Study 2 zooms in on parenting quality as supportive or undermining for children’s emotions and behaviors around homework engagement. Results underscore the importance of appraisals of parenting as a mechanism by which positive or negative parenting strategies influence child emotions and behaviors. Studies 3-4 explore daily processes within the context of adolescence and increasing independence from the family. In Study 3, positive parenting is again identified as an important driver of daily mood, while highlighting the role of adolescents’ own emotion control capabilities in determining potential impacts of parenting. Presentation 4 identified profiles of adolescent mood reactivity to interactions both within and outside the family, finding both domain- and mood-specific patterns of heightened and dampened daily reactivity.

Together, these studies contribute new insights about variability in the daily experiences that contextualize children’s and adolescents' lives, as well as the implications of this variability for their emotions, behaviors, and relationships.

Paper #1
Title	Maternal and paternal financial stress, marital behaviors, and parent-child conflict: A daily diary study
Presenting author	Jingyi Xu, University of Texas at Dallas, United States

Paper #2
Title	Daily maternal involvement in children’s homework and children’s engagement: A process examination from social-cognitive perspectives
Presenting author	Dr. Zeyi Shi, Ph.D., East China Normal University, China

Paper #3
Title	Daily Fluctuations in Adolescent Emotion Control and Mood: Timing Positive Parenting
Presenting author	Lan Chen, Pennsylvania State University, United States

Paper #4
Title	Adolescents' daily interactions with family, friends, and at school: Profiles of emotional reactivity
Presenting author	Carlie Sloan, Arizona State University, United States

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Session chair
Carlie Sloan, Arizona State University, United States

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