Parents’ socialization of positive affect is relevant during adolescence, given that parents play a key role in the development of youth emotional competency. The current study hypothesized that parent characteristics (emotion regulation, belief that positive emotions are costly, and depressive symptoms) would be uniquely related to both dampening and enhancing responses to youth positive affect. Parents (n = 373) of adolescents (youth ages 10–17 years) were recruited through Amazon Mechanical Turk. Parents reported on their own regulation of both positive and negative emotions, depressive symptoms, beliefs about youth emotions, and responses to adolescent expressions of positive affect. The final structural regression model partially supported the hypothesis with respect to parental dampening responses. Depressive symptoms, over-controlled emotion regulation, and beliefs about positive emotions each uniquely related to dampening. Only the coping emotion regulation strategies factor was uniquely associated with parents’ enhancing responses. These findings support existing theories of parental emotion socialization, though the final model in this sample provides more insight into parental dampening than parental enhancing responses to positive affect. The finding that emotion regulation strategies (over-controlled and coping) were differentially related to parental responses to youth positive affect suggests a connection between parents’ regulation of their own emotions and responses to their offspring’s emotion expressions.

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父母的信念、抑郁症状和情绪调节与父母对青少年积极情感的反应有着独特的关系

鉴于父母在青少年情绪能力的发展中起着关键作用，因此父母对积极情感的社会化在青春期是相关的。目前的研究假设父母特征（情绪调节、认为积极情绪代价高昂以及抑郁症状）将与抑制和增强对青年积极影响的反应有独特的关系。父母（n = 373) 的青少年（10-17 岁的青年）是通过 Amazon Mechanical Turk 招募的。父母报告了他们自己对积极和消极情绪、抑郁症状、对青少年情绪的信念以及对青少年积极情绪表达的反应的调节。最终的结构回归模型部分支持了关于父母抑制反应的假设。抑郁症状、过度控制的情绪调节以及对积极情绪的信念都与抑制有关。只有应对情绪调节策略因素与父母的增强反应唯一相关。这些发现支持现有的父母情感社会化理论，尽管该样本中的最终模型提供了更多关于父母抑制而不是父母增强对积极影响的反应的洞察力。