Wu Nini, Li Zirong, Liu Tuo, Tian Yansheng, Ding Ruyi
Department of Psychology, School of Education, Guangdong University of Education, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China.
Department of Psychology, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, China.
J Youth Adolesc. 2025 Aug 22. doi: 10.1007/s10964-025-02240-6.
Exposure to peer victimization is often predictive of increased psychosocial problems in adolescents, but parenting has been identified as a critical mitigating factor of these negative effects. Among parenting behaviors, emotion socialization plays a vital role in adolescents' emotional and social development. However, its specific role in the context of peer victimization and adolescent adjustment is unclear. To address this, this study examined whether adolescent-perceived parental responses to children's negative emotions moderate the longitudinal predictive effects of bullying victimization on adolescent psychosocial problems over eight months. The study included 1007 Chinese adolescents with a mean age of 14.75 years (SD = 0.60). Female participants accounted for 53.5% of the sample. The results showed that mothers were perceived to engage more often than fathers in supportive responses, emotion minimization, and didactic talk. Being bullied positively predicted adolescents' internalizing problems when they perceived maternal support as excessively high, but it negatively predicted adolescents' externalizing problems when they perceived maternal support as very low. No significant relationship was found between being bullied and adolescents' problems when maternal support was perceived as moderate. These findings suggest that maternal supportive responses to adolescents' negative emotions moderate the association between bullying victimization and adolescent psychosocial problems and should be considered in prevention and intervention efforts.
遭受同伴欺凌往往预示着青少年心理社会问题会增加，但养育方式已被确认为减轻这些负面影响的关键因素。在养育行为中，情感社会化在青少年的情感和社会发展中起着至关重要的作用。然而，其在同伴欺凌和青少年适应背景下的具体作用尚不清楚。为了解决这一问题，本研究考察了青少年所感知的父母对孩子负面情绪的反应是否会调节八个月内欺凌受害经历对青少年心理社会问题的纵向预测效应。该研究纳入了1007名中国青少年，平均年龄为14.75岁（标准差=0.60）。女性参与者占样本的53.5%。结果表明，青少年认为母亲比父亲更常采用支持性反应、情绪淡化和说教式谈话。当青少年认为母亲的支持过高时，遭受欺凌正向预测青少年的内化问题，但当青少年认为母亲的支持非常低时，遭受欺凌负向预测青少年的外化问题。当认为母亲的支持处于中等水平时，未发现遭受欺凌与青少年问题之间存在显著关系。这些发现表明，母亲对青少年负面情绪的支持性反应调节了欺凌受害经历与青少年心理社会问题之间的关联，在预防和干预工作中应予以考虑。
