Key result
Higher levels of mother-reported parental directing predicted decreases in adolescent-reported peer rejection and friends' deviant behavior among youth with low physiological arousal to challenge.
Cohort (n=246)
Parental behavioral control may benefit underaroused youth in the adolescent peer domain by reducing peer rejection and friends' deviant behavior.
Parental directing may benefit low-arousal youth's peer relations; hypothesis-generating and should not yet alter recommendations.
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Tu et al. (2016) conducted a cohort in Typically developing adolescents (n=246). Parental management of peers (directing of youths' friendships) was evaluated on Adolescent-reported peer rejection and friends' deviant behavior. Higher levels of mother-reported parental directing predicted decreases in adolescent-reported peer rejection and friends' deviant behavior among youth with low physiological arousal to challenge.
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