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Ethnic Differences in the Relation Between Parental Emotion Socialization and Mental Health in Emerging Adults

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The present study examined the relation between retrospectively reported parental emotion socialization practices and emerging adults’ mental health across four ethnic groups. Participants were 112 European American, 89 Latino/a American, 82 African American/Black, and 83 Asian American emerging adults. Participants completed questionnaires assessing current mental health symptoms and retrospective reports of parents’ responses to their expression of negative affect as adolescents. Fathers’ socialization practices were associated with emerging adults’ functioning across ethnic groups, but the relation between mothers’ socialization and emerging adults’ functioning varied across ethnic groups. Supportive practices were significantly associated with fewer symptoms in emerging adults only for Latino/a American families, and unsupportive practices were associated with more symptoms in emerging adults only for European American and African American/Black families. Results point to the importance of parental emotion socialization practices during adolescence for emerging adults’ well-being, but suggest that some practices may be more important than others depending on cultural background.

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    Claudia I. Lugo-Candelas, Elizabeth A. Harvey, Rosanna P. Breaux & Sharonne D. Herbert

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Lugo-Candelas, C.I., Harvey, E.A., Breaux, R.P. et al. Ethnic Differences in the Relation Between Parental Emotion Socialization and Mental Health in Emerging Adults. J Child Fam Stud 25, 922–938 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-015-0266-8

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