Day-to-Day Parent-Adolescent Negative Interaction and Adolescent Mood: The Moderating Role of Adolescent Emotion Dysregulation
Creators: name: Branje, Susan
name: Maciejewski, Dominique
name: Lan, Qili
name: Donker, Monika H.
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Child Psychology
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Developmental Psychology
subject: adolescence
subject: daily mood
subject: emotion regulation
subject: parenting
subject: daily diary
subject: DSEM
subject: intensive longitudinal data
subject: father

description: Adolescent daily mood and mood swings predict risk for anxiety and depression (e.g., Maciejewski et al., 2014). These daily affect experiences may be influenced by the proximal day-to-day interactions with parents (Hollenstein et al., 2017; Morris et al., 2007). Adolescents’ mood also shapes how adolescents interact with their parents and how they perceive the interaction (e.g., Lobraico et al., 2020). Prior studies have indicated that adolescents reported a more negative daily mood when they experienced negative interactions with their parents on the same day or the previous day (and vice versa; Boele et al., 2023; Lobraico et al., 2020; Mastrotheodoros et al., 2020; Van der Kaap et al., 2022). Whether these day-to-day emotional processes differ between mother- and father-adolescent interaction is unclear, although macro-level research suggests that mothers and fathers have unique roles in adolescent emotion regulation (Brand &amp; Klimes-Dougan, 2010; Shortt et al., 2016; Van Lissa et al., 2019). Thus, this study aims to examine and compare the relation between mother- versus father-adolescent daily negative interactions and adolescent daily mood (Aim 1). Additionally, prior work has revealed heterogeneity in within-family day-to-day associations between parent-adolescent interaction and adolescent mood (e.g., Boele et al.,2023; Bülow, Roekel, et al., 2022), suggesting adolescents may be differentially susceptible or responsive to daily interactions with parents. To what extent parent-adolescent interaction influences and is influenced by adolescent daily mood is still largely unclear. Adolescent trait emotion dysregulation may be a good candidate moderator of the day-to-day associations between parent-adolescent interaction and adolescent mood. Research has shown that adolescents with higher levels of emotion dysregulation are more likely to respond to emotion-eliciting contexts in a maladaptive way and less effective in regulating their own emotions to engage in goal-directed behaviors (Beauchaine, 2015; Daros et al., 2020; Heiy and Cheavens, 2014; Weinberg et al., 2009). Hence, adolescents with higher emotion dysregulation may be more vulnerable to daily negative interactions with parents (e.g., experiencing increased negative mood and decreased positive mood after a negative interaction), and more likely to start or maintain negative interactions when or after experiencing increased negative mood and decreased positive mood. Thus, our study aims to examine whether and how adolescent emotion dysregulation will moderate the within-family day-to-day transactional associations between parent-adolescent negative interaction and adolescent mood (Aim 2). To answer our research questions, we will utilize a longitudinal daily diary data set that assessed mother- and father-adolescent negative interaction and adolescent affect (positive and negative) for 75 assessment days (5 consecutive weekdays at each measurement, 3 measurements per year over 5 years). We will use dynamic structural equation models to (1) examine and compare the day-to-day within-family concurrent and cross-lagged associations between mother- versus father-adolescent negative interactions and adolescent mood (negative affect and positive affect) and (2) examine whether and how these associations may be moderated by levels of adolescent emotion dysregulation.