Department of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Via dei Marsi, 78, 00175 Rome, Italy.
IRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia, Via Ardeatina, 306/354, 00179 Roma, Italy.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2023 Feb 17;20(4):3604. doi: 10.3390/ijerph20043604.
This study aims to cross-culturally identify the parental socialization strategies in response to a child's happiness and their associations with youth academic and socio-emotional adjustment, controlling for the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants were a convenient sample of Italian (N = 606, 81.9% mothers) and Azerbaijanis (N = 227, 61.4% mothers) parents of youths ( = 12.89, = 4.06; 51% girls). Parents filled out an online survey to assess their socialization strategies in response to their children's happiness, their children's negative emotion regulation and dysregulation, academic performance, and prosocial behavior. Exploratory factorial analysis showed the presence of two factors that enclosed supportive and unsupportive parental socialization strategies. A multiple-group path analysis model showed that similarly across countries, supportive parental strategies were positively related to youths' prosocial behavior and that unsupportive parental strategies were positively related to youths' negative emotion dysregulation, and negatively related to youths' academic performance and negative emotion regulation. Those results emerged controlling for parents' and adolescents' gender and age, parents' educational level, social desirability, and Covid-related problems. This study advances cross-cultural knowledge about the impact of the strategies that parents use to socialize their children's happiness in the unique context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
本研究旨在跨文化识别父母针对孩子幸福感的养育策略，并探讨其与青少年学业和社会情感适应的关联，同时控制 COVID-19 大流行的影响。参与者为意大利（N=606，81.9%为母亲）和阿塞拜疆（N=227，61.4%为母亲）的青少年父母的方便样本（N=833，平均年龄=12.89，SD=4.06；51%为女孩）。父母通过在线调查评估他们针对孩子幸福感的养育策略、孩子的负性情绪调节和失调、学业成绩和亲社会行为。探索性因子分析显示存在两种因子，包含支持性和非支持性的父母养育策略。多群组路径分析模型表明，在不同国家，支持性的父母策略与青少年的亲社会行为呈正相关，而非支持性的父母策略与青少年的负性情绪失调呈正相关，与青少年的学业成绩和负性情绪调节呈负相关。这些结果是在控制父母和青少年的性别和年龄、父母的教育水平、社会期望和与 COVID-19 相关的问题后得出的。本研究在 COVID-19 大流行的独特背景下，增进了关于父母用来培养孩子幸福感的策略对跨文化的影响的知识。
