Supportive parenting moderates the link between parents’ and children’s internalizing symptoms in families of color.

= 2.6 years; 49.1% girls) who identified as Black/African American (60%) or Hispanic/Latino (40%) and their parents. Children reported on their depressive symptoms, generalized anxiety symptoms, and secure base use. Parents reported on their depressive symptoms, generalized anxiety symptoms, and nurturant parenting practices. Analyses revealed that children's secure base use and parent-reported nurturant-involved parenting mitigated the associations between parent and child internalizing symptoms, such that links between parent and child symptoms were significant only when children reported low secure base use or parents reported low nurturant-involved parenting. These findings suggest that involved and dependable parenting can serve as a protective factor for Black and Latino youth when parents experience elevated internalizing symptoms. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).