Emotional Availability of Parents and Adolescents Psychological Well-being: The Mediating Role of Emotional Expressive Flexibility and Perceived Peer Maryam Safari Shirazi Acceptance

Subject Areas : روان‌شناسی تحولی

Maryam Safari Shirazi ¹ , لیلا شاملی ^{2 *}

1 - department of psychology. faculty of humanity and literature, Lorestan university, Lorestan, Iran.
2 - استادیار روانشناسی، گروه روانشناسی، دانشکده ادبیات و علوم انسانی، دانشگاه سلمان فارسی کازرون، کازرون، ایران

Received: 2022-07-30 Accepted : 2024-04-21 Published : 2025-02-28

Keywords: expressive flexibility, well-being, perceived peer acceptance, emotional availability of parents,

Abstract :

The aim of this study was to investigate the mediating role of expressive flexibility and perceived peer acceptance in the relationship between emotional availability of parents and psychological well-being of adolescents. The participants were 410 teenage girls aged 11-16 years old in Shiraz, who were selected by convenience sampling. The research was a cross-sectional type with path analysis method to investigate the relationships between variables and the research tools included The Lum Emotional Availability of Parents scale (Lum & Phares, 2005), Child and Adolescent Flexible Expressiveness Scale (Wang & Hawk, 2020), Brief Scale of Psychological Well-Being for Adolescents (Gómez-López et al., 2019), and Perceived Acceptance Scale (Brock et al., 1998). The results showed the mediating role of enhancement and suppression and perceived peer acceptance in the relationship between emotional availability of mother and father with psychological well-being. Also, mother’s and father’s emotional availability predicted the perceived peer acceptance indirectly and only through the mediation of emotional suppression in adolescents. Therefore, it is possible to increase emotion expression, social acceptance and well-being by training parents in the field of improving parent-child interactions.

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