Introduction

Emotional separation and parental trust are two fundamental components of parent-adolescent relationships across different cultural contexts. Previous research showed that emotional separation hindered adolescents’ psychosocial adjustment, while parental trust benefited it. However, research on preadolescence is lacking. Preadolescence is a crucial period, as theories and findings suggest that too early autonomy around puberty had negative consequences for psychosocial adjustment. This study focused on preadolescence and early adolescence and tested two hypotheses: that emotional separation would be negatively, and parental trust would be positively, associated with psychosocial adjustment, and that this pattern of associations would be more salient in preadolescence than in early adolescence.

Methods

Participants were 856 preadolescent elementary schoolers (49.6% girls; age range 9–12 years, M_age = 10.79, SD = 0.92) and 518 early adolescent junior high schoolers (47.7% girls, age range 12–15 years; M_age = 13.56, SD = 0.98) in Japan, who completed measures of emotional separation, parental trust, and psychosocial adjustment (industry, school adaptation, and daily life behaviors).

Results

Emotional separation was negatively associated with reviewing learning contents and doing homework. Parental trust was positively associated with industry, school adaptation, waking up at regular times, and observing rules at school. These relationships did not differ between age groups.

Conclusions

This study highlights that emotional separation has a negative relationship, and parental trust has a positive relationship, with psychosocial adjustment throughout preadolescence and adolescence.

中文翻译：

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青春期前和青春期的情绪分离，父母信任和心理社会适应。

介绍

情感分离和父母信任是跨不同文化背景的父母与青少年关系的两个基本组成部分。先前的研究表明，情感分离阻碍了青少年的心理社会适应，而父母的信任使他们受益。然而，缺乏对青春期前的研究。由于理论和研究结果表明，过早的围绕青春期的自主权会对心理社会适应产生负面影响，因此，前身衰老是至关重要的时期。这项研究的重点是青春期前和青春期，并检验了两个假设：与心理社会适应相关的情绪分离将是消极的，父母的信任将是正面的，并且这种关联模式在青春期前比在青春期前更为显着。

方法

参与者为856名青春期前小学生（49.6％的女孩；年龄范围9-12岁，M_年龄 = 10.79，SD  = 0.92）和518名青春期初中生（47.7％的女孩，年龄12-15岁；M_年龄 = 13.56） ，SD  = 0.98），他们完成了情感分离，父母信任和心理社会适应（行业，学校适应和日常生活行为）的测量。

结果

情绪分离与复习学习内容和做作业负相关。父母的信任与行业，学校的适应，定期起床以及遵守学校的规则有正相关。这些关系在各个年龄段之间没有差异。

结论

这项研究强调，情绪分离与负相关，父母信任与正相关，在整个青春期和青春期前都有心理社会适应。