Throughout development, the conditions that elicit children’s support seeking behaviour change hand in hand with maturation and changing developmental tasks. Little is known about the situations in which adolescents need support or about which parental behaviours elicit adolescents’ sense of being supported. In the current study, adolescents living in the Netherlands (N = 98, M_age = 15.5, SD = 1.16, range = 14–18 years) filled in online questionnaires in which they were asked to recall autobiographical support-related memories (ASMs) separately for both parents. Support from both parents was most frequently needed in case of concerns about competence. Loss or illness of close others or pets elicited primarily a need for maternal support whereas family conflicts and practical problems most frequently elicited a need for paternal support. Additionally, parent behaviour reported in times of distress was most frequently related to comforting and facilitating support seeking. These behaivours were rated as satisfying and sufficiently supportive for the reported distress. These results confirm the importance of parental support in adolescence. Clinical implications of these findings and directions for future research are discussed.

在整个发展过程中，引发儿童支持寻求行为的条件随着成熟和不断变化的发展任务而变化。对于青少年需要支持的情况或父母的哪些行为会引起青少年的支持感知之甚少。在目前的研究中，居住在荷兰的青少年（N  = 98，M_年龄 = 15.5，SD = 1.16，范围 = 14-18 岁）填写在线问卷，要求他们分别回忆父母双方的自传支持相关记忆（ASM）。如果担心能力问题，最常需要父母双方的支持。亲近的人或宠物的丧失或疾病主要引起对母亲支持的需要，而家庭冲突和实际问题最常引起对父亲支持的需要。此外，在痛苦时期报告的父母行为最常与安慰和促进寻求支持有关。这些行为被评为令人满意且足以支持所报告的痛苦。这些结果证实了父母支持在青春期的重要性。讨论了这些发现的临床意义和未来研究的方向。