Not exact matches
Multiple - group models estimated in structural equation modeling suggested that
youth who were higher in social anxiety or coping efficacy problems were more likely to transmit
emotional reactivity developed in the family - of - origin to
emotional reactivity in response to conflict in close friendships.
Additionally, those
youth higher in self - blame and depressive affect were more likely to transmit
emotional reactivity from friendships to romantic relationships.
Results showed that parent positive behaviors, and low levels of parent anxious affect, during the stressful laboratory task for
youth buffered
youth negative
emotional reactivity to real - world negative peer events, but not non-peer events.
Findings inform our understanding of parenting influences on anxious
youth's
emotional reactivity to developmentally salient negative events during the transition into adolescence.
Anxious
youth exhibit heightened
emotional reactivity, particularly to social - evaluative threat, such as peer evaluation and feedback, compared to non-anxious
youth.
Therefore, it is important to investigate factors that may buffer
emotional reactivity within peer contexts among anxious
youth.