Challenging the dichotomy: Examining parent socialization goals and behaviors regarding positive affect in Bengaluru, India
- Title
- Challenging the dichotomy: Examining parent socialization goals and behaviors regarding positive affect in Bengaluru, India
- Creator
- Wick S.B.; Sathiyaseelan A.; Raval V.V.; Luebbe A.M.
- Description
- Parents' responses to youth positive affect (PA) have been dichotomized as enhancing and dampening. This dichotomy may not fit with cultural scripts about emotion in communities where a balance between positive and negative emotions is preferred. To assess parents' PA socialization in a culturally relevant manner for urban, middle-class families in India, we developed a new measure of parental goals about happiness and adapted the Responses to Adolescent Happy Affect Scale (RAHAS). We tested the psychometric properties of these measures and assessed relations among parental socialization goals and behaviors across 5 months. Our sample included 377 adolescent (84.4% girls; Mage = 14.47) and parent (63.9% mothers) dyads, primarily Hindu, in Bengaluru, India. Two parental goals factors emerged: Balancing and Controlling and Maximizing and Sharing happiness. Three factors emerged for the adapted RAHAS. Two factors were the same as the original RAHAS: (a) Enhancing strategies to upregulate PA and (b) Dampening strategies to downregulate PA. A third factor emerged: (c) Balancing strategies, which were culturally salient for families in India and aimed for moderation. Among socialization behaviors, Enhancing and Dampening were inversely related, while Balancing related positively to each. Balancing and Controlling goals were only correlated to Balancing behaviors. Maximizing and Sharing goals were correlated positively with Enhancing and inversely with Dampening. Longitudinally, Maximizing and Sharing and Balancing and Controlling goals were related to a significant increase and marginal decrease in Dampening, respectively. Challenging the dichotomy, our findings highlight the relevance of balancing to theories of PA socialization. 2024 The Author(s). Journal of Research on Adolescence published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of Society for Research on Adolescence.
- Source
- Journal of Research on Adolescence, Vol-34, No. 4, pp. 1653-1667.
- Date
- 2024-01-01
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Inc
- Subject
- emotion socialization; India; parenting; positive affect; socialization goals
- Coverage
- Wick S.B., Miami University, Oxford, OH, United States; Sathiyaseelan A., Christ (Deemed to be University), Bengaluru, India; Raval V.V., Miami University, Oxford, OH, United States; Luebbe A.M., Miami University, Oxford, OH, United States
- Rights
- All Open Access; Hybrid Gold Open Access
- Relation
- ISSN: 10508392; PubMed ID: 39446032
- Format
- Online
- Language
- English
- Type
- Article
Collection
Citation
Wick S.B.; Sathiyaseelan A.; Raval V.V.; Luebbe A.M., “Challenging the dichotomy: Examining parent socialization goals and behaviors regarding positive affect in Bengaluru, India,” CHRIST (Deemed To Be University) Institutional Repository, accessed February 25, 2025, https://archives.christuniversity.in/items/show/12636.