Socialization of coping with peer victimization and negative emotionality: Interactive contributions to children's responses to stress and depressive symptoms

This study examined the prospective, interactive contributions of parent socialization of coping and child negative emotionality to children’s responses to peer aggression and depressive symptoms. Children (n = 289, M age = 8.00, SD = .37) and their parents completed questionnaires at two waves over a one-year period. Results revealed that active socialization of coping contributed to fewer depressive symptoms over time; specifically, secondary control engagement suggestions predicted fewer symptoms for all children, and disengagement coping suggestions predicted fewer symptoms for children with both high negative emotionality and high exposure to peer victimization. Active socialization of coping also contributed to less disengagement coping and fewer involuntary engagement responses, and these effects varied as a function of negative emotionality. Passive socialization of coping contributed to less primary control engagement coping and more disengagement coping, but only for youth with high negative emotionality. This research provides novel evidence that parents’ responses to children’s peer victimization experiences contribute to children’s adjustment over time. In addition, this research suggests that the implications of socialization of coping for children’s adjustment vary as a function of children’s temperament-based negative emotionality.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Psychology

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2010

Author dc:creator

• Abaied, Jamie L.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Rudolph, Karen D.
• Pomerantz, Eva M.
• Berenbaum, Howard
• Rodkin, Philip C.
• McElwain, Nancy L.

• coping
• parenting
• socialization
• depression
• temperament
• peer victimization

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright Jamie L. Abaied 2010

Language dc:language

en

Handle dc:identifier

http://hdl.handle.net/2142/16729

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/16729