Salgado Mauricio, González Luis, Yáñez Alejandra
Centre for Research in Inclusive Education, School of Social Sciences, Universidad Andres Bello, Santiago, Chile.
School of Psychology, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Valparaíso, Chile.
Front Psychol. 2021 Feb 17;12:628720. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.628720. eCollection 2021.
Early adolescence is a developmental stage that comprises some basic interactional processes with parents, which can be described as gaining autonomy while maintaining relatedness. Studying how maternal and paternal involvement influence the life satisfaction of sons and daughters during early adolescence is especially important while seeking to understand the challenges of this developmental stage. In this paper, we investigate the differential effects of maternal and paternal involvement, as assessed by sons and daughters, on their life satisfaction during early adolescence. We use a unique survey conducted in Chile, , focusing on a subsample of 497 early adolescents attending 5th to 8th grade (60% female, age = 12.42, SD = 1.18). Our findings indicate that both paternal and maternal involvement are positively correlated with the life satisfaction of adolescents. We also find that the gender of adolescents moderates the effect of maternal involvement, so daughters (but not sons) who deemed the involvement of their mothers to be more positive reported greater life satisfaction. More positive paternal involvement correlates with greater life satisfaction for sons and daughters. We discuss some mechanisms that might bring about these differences.
青春期早期是一个包含与父母一些基本互动过程的发展阶段，这些互动过程可以被描述为在保持亲密关系的同时获得自主性。在试图理解这个发展阶段所面临的挑战时，研究母亲和父亲的参与如何影响青春期早期儿子和女儿的生活满意度尤为重要。在本文中，我们研究了儿子和女儿所评估的母亲和父亲的参与对他们青春期早期生活满意度的不同影响。我们使用了在智利进行的一项独特调查，重点关注497名五至八年级的青春期早期学生的子样本（60%为女性，年龄 = 12.42，标准差 = 1.18）。我们的研究结果表明，父亲和母亲的参与都与青少年的生活满意度呈正相关。我们还发现，青少年的性别会调节母亲参与的影响，因此认为母亲参与更积极的女儿（而非儿子）报告的生活满意度更高。父亲更积极的参与与儿子和女儿更高的生活满意度相关。我们讨论了一些可能导致这些差异的机制。
