The Effect of Parental Emotion Socialization on Adolescents’ Negative Emotions: The Mediating Role of Neuroticism

Key Points

• This study investigates how parental emotion socialization affects adolescents' negative emotions and the mediating role of neuroticism.
• Surveyed 676 high school students using emotion response scales and personality questionnaires.
• Assessed supportive and non-supportive parental strategies in relation to adolescents' negative emotions.
• Conducted mediating analysis to explore neuroticism's role between parenting strategies and emotions.
• Supportive strategies correlate negatively with negative emotions.
• Supportive and minimizing strategies relate negatively to neuroticism.
• Non-supportive strategies correlate positively with neuroticism.
• Neuroticism partially mediates the effect of supportive strategies on negative emotions.
• Neuroticism fully mediates the effects of non-supportive and minimizing strategies on negative emotions.