Parental beliefs about positive affect and parental depressive symptoms predicting parents' positive emotion socialisation in India
- Title
- Parental beliefs about positive affect and parental depressive symptoms predicting parents' positive emotion socialisation in India
- Creator
- Freeman M.; Sathiyaseelan A.; Luebbe A.; Raval V.
- Description
- Emerging literature examines implications of parental socialisation of positive affect (PA) for children's socio-emotional functioning, though little is known about predictors of parental PA socialisation behaviours in diverse families around the world. Based on the literature that suggests that parental cognitions (Okagaki & Bingham, 2005) and their own mood state contribute to their parenting (Dix & Meunier, 2009), we examined two parent-related factors (parental beliefs regarding PA and depressive symptoms) as predictors of parental responses to their adolescents' PA in an urban middle-class sample of mothers and fathers from India (N = 267; 40.4% mothers). Parents completed measures of their PA-related beliefs, depressive symptomatology, and their responses to adolescents' PA at two-time points, 5 months apart. Parental PA-related beliefs showed low stability and depressive symptoms showed moderate stability across time. There were concurrent bivariate associations between parental PA-related beliefs and their socialisation behaviours, though these relations did not hold in multivariate path analyses across time. Parental depressive symptoms at T1 inversely predicted family savouring at T2 and positively predicted dampening at T2. These findings provide the first line of evidence indicating that parental cognitions and their own mood contribute to their emotion-related parenting behaviours in India. 2022 The Authors. International Journal of Psychology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of International Union of Psychological Science.
- Source
- International Journal of Psychology, Vol-57, No. 5, pp. 597-605.
- Date
- 2022-01-01
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Inc
- Subject
- India; Parental depression; Parental emotion socialisation; Positive affect
- Coverage
- Freeman M., Miami University, Oxford, OH, United States; Sathiyaseelan A., Christ University, Bengaluru, India; Luebbe A., Miami University, Oxford, OH, United States; Raval V., Miami University, Oxford, OH, United States
- Rights
- All Open Access; Green Open Access
- Relation
- ISSN: 207594; PubMed ID: 35508800
- Format
- Online
- Language
- English
- Type
- Article
Collection
Citation
Freeman M.; Sathiyaseelan A.; Luebbe A.; Raval V., “Parental beliefs about positive affect and parental depressive symptoms predicting parents' positive emotion socialisation in India,” CHRIST (Deemed To Be University) Institutional Repository, accessed February 24, 2025, https://archives.christuniversity.in/items/show/14878.