They Hold Me Back: The Dynamic Interplay of Parental Discouragement of Exploration, Parental Metaemotion and Adolescent's Sense of Agency

Key Points

• This research explores how parental attitudes influence adolescent exploration and agency development.
• Analyzed parent-child relationship processes
• Investigated parental metaemotion
• Explored adolescent self-development through qualitative methods
• Parental discouragement negatively affects adolescent exploration.
• Positive family dynamics enhance adolescents' sense of agency.
• Mutual influences between parents and adolescents shape development outcomes.

Abstract