Family ProcessPub Date : 2025-09-04DOI: 10.1111/famp.70070
Alexandra Bédard, Marilou Côté, Dominique Meilleur, Giuseppina Di Meglio, Nathalie Gingras, Caroline Pesant, Danielle Taddeo, Richard Bélanger, Isabelle Thibault, Pierre-Olivier Nadeau, Holly Agostino, Chantal Stheneur, Jean-Yves Frappier, Catherine Bégin
{"title":"Mother–Father Distress, Accommodation, and Child Eating Disorder Behaviors: A Dyadic Perspective","authors":"Alexandra Bédard, Marilou Côté, Dominique Meilleur, Giuseppina Di Meglio, Nathalie Gingras, Caroline Pesant, Danielle Taddeo, Richard Bélanger, Isabelle Thibault, Pierre-Olivier Nadeau, Holly Agostino, Chantal Stheneur, Jean-Yves Frappier, Catherine Bégin","doi":"10.1111/famp.70070","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/famp.70070","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Parental psychological distress and accommodating and enabling behaviors may represent maintaining factors of anorexia nervosa (AN). However, very few studies included both parents; their interdependence is unknown. Using a dyadic approach, this study aimed to examine the relationship between parental psychological distress and accommodation at the admission of their child to specialized eating disorder programs, and their observation of their child's eating disordered behaviors 1 year later. Ninety-one dyads of mixed-gender couples of parents of children and adolescents diagnosed with AN (<i>M</i><sub>age</sub> = 14.5 ± 1.5 years) were recruited from one of the five University Health Centers across the province of Québec, Canada. At admission, parents completed the Psychological Distress Index and the Accommodation and Enabling Scale for Eating Disorders. Furthermore, parents reported their child's anorexic behaviors 12 months later using the Anorexic Behavior Observation Scale. The dyads were nondistinguishable by gender, suggesting a similar pattern of associations for mothers and fathers. Path analyses guided by the actor–partner interdependence model revealed an indirect effect within each parent; higher parental psychological distress was associated with higher child's eating disordered behaviors at the 12-month follow-up through greater parental eating disorder accommodation. A partner effect was also found; when one parent experienced psychological distress, the other parent was more likely to engage in concomitant accommodating behaviors, which, in turn, was associated with a report of more child's eating disordered behaviors by this parent at the 12-month follow-up. These findings highlight the importance of a dyadic perspective in exploring parents' emotional states and behaviors toward children with AN.</p>","PeriodicalId":51396,"journal":{"name":"Family Process","volume":"64 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/famp.70070","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144997875","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Family ProcessPub Date : 2025-09-01DOI: 10.1111/famp.70069
Zhonghuang Su, Shuangshuang Wang, Tuo Liu, Yansheng Tian, Ruyi Ding
{"title":"Adolescent-Perceived Maternal Responses to Their Negative Emotions Predict Adolescents' Willingness to Share Emotional Distress With Mothers: A Cross-Lagged Panel Network Model","authors":"Zhonghuang Su, Shuangshuang Wang, Tuo Liu, Yansheng Tian, Ruyi Ding","doi":"10.1111/famp.70069","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/famp.70069","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The open communication about adolescents' emotions between parents and adolescents is pivotal, as it helps adolescents to understand and manage emotional experiences. Utilizing longitudinal data, we aimed to explore whether maternal supportive or nonsupportive responses to adolescents' negative emotions could predict the communication patterns of adolescents' emotional distress (CPAED) between parents and adolescents. Two hundred Chinese adolescents (65.5% boys, <i>M</i><sub>age</sub> = 14.17 years) completed an online survey in March 2022 (Time 1), and 157 of them (66.2% boys, <i>M</i><sub>age</sub> = 15.17 years) completed the survey again in April 2022 (Time 2) after a 5-week COVID-19-induced home confinement with parents. Results with the Cross-Lagged Panel Network (CLPN) Model showed that adolescent-perceived supportive responses predicted later more active and reactive emotion sharing and predicted less problematic CPAED, such as lack of solicitation by mothers and lack of responses by adolescents. Conversely, nonsupportive responses predicted more problematic CPAED over time. The centrality analyses indicated that across the 5-week interval, the maternal supportive responses may have a stronger predictive role on CPAED than nonsupportive responses. This study underscores the necessity for parents to engage in supportive emotional socialization practices to promote healthy emotional communication in adolescent–mother dyads.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":51396,"journal":{"name":"Family Process","volume":"64 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144927504","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Racial Stress, Social Support, and Racial Socialization Among Rural Black Mothers: Associations With Preschoolers' Executive Functioning","authors":"Qiong Wu, Xinyun Kaikai Zhang, Chioma Opara, Ming Cui, Penny Ralston","doi":"10.1111/famp.70068","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/famp.70068","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Racial stress significantly affects Black mothers and their children. To cope, mothers often use racial socialization strategies, such as preparation for bias, cultural socialization, and promotion of mistrust, to help their children manage race-related stress. Guided by the Racial Encounter Coping Appraisal and Socialization Theory, this study investigated the relations among racial stress, social support, and racial socialization among low-income, rural Black mothers and their associations with preschoolers' executive functioning. The study utilized data from 437 Black mothers and their preschool-aged children. Mothers reported their social support over 3 years, as well as racial stress and racial socialization practices. Preschoolers' executive functioning was assessed using a series of laboratory tasks. Findings from a path model indicated that both racial stress and social support predicted the use of racial socialization strategies. Notably, social support was linked to higher cultural socialization under high racial stress. Additionally, maternal racial stress moderated the relations between racial socialization and child executive functioning: preparation for bias was associated with lower executive functioning under high maternal racial stress, and promotion of mistrust was linked with lower executive functioning under low stress. The study highlights the importance of age-appropriate, context-sensitive racial socialization strategies and the need for supportive networks to enhance positive outcomes for Black mothers and children in racially stressful environments.</p>","PeriodicalId":51396,"journal":{"name":"Family Process","volume":"64 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/famp.70068","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144923745","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Family ProcessPub Date : 2025-08-28DOI: 10.1111/famp.70063
Marianne Côté-Olijnyk, Peter Fonagy, Yixiao Zeng, Celia M. T. Greenwood, Alicia Schiffrin, Mona Qureshi, Zoe Atsaidis, Brian Greenfield
{"title":"Global Assessment of Relational Functioning: A Dynamic Family Measure Predicting Outcome in Children With Diabetes","authors":"Marianne Côté-Olijnyk, Peter Fonagy, Yixiao Zeng, Celia M. T. Greenwood, Alicia Schiffrin, Mona Qureshi, Zoe Atsaidis, Brian Greenfield","doi":"10.1111/famp.70063","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/famp.70063","url":null,"abstract":"<p>While the prevalence of type 1 diabetes (T1D) in the pediatric population has been increasing dramatically in recent years, most youths with T1D do not meet the treatment targets recommended by the American Diabetes Association. The multiple self-report scales for parents and adolescents that have been investigated in relation to treatment adherence and glycemic control in pediatric T1D show limited predictive abilities. This longitudinal observational study investigates whether the Global Assessment of Relational Functioning (GARF) can predict the medical outcome for newly diagnosed youths with T1D. The GARF is a brief structured interview assessing important areas of family functioning. The GARF assesses three main areas of family functioning: The organization, the emotional climate, and the problem-solving attributes of the family. Fifty-one youths recently diagnosed with diabetes and their families were recruited from a care facility in Canada. The age of the youths ranged from 1 to 16 years (<i>M</i> = 8.89; SD = 4.2), comprising 13 preschoolers, 28 school-aged children, and 10 teenagers. Including family members, a total of 139 people participated in the assessments. Correlations were sought between GARF scores, patients' serum glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c) and the frequency of ER visits, hospitalizations, episodes of ketoacidosis, severe hypoglycemia, insulin resistance, and mental health referrals over 21 months. The GARF score was significantly inversely correlated with outcome HbA1c scores (<i>r</i> = −0.61, <i>p</i> < 0.001), indicating that higher family functioning is associated with better metabolic control. These results suggest the GARF could be administered at diagnosis to predict diabetes outcome among a pediatric population.</p>","PeriodicalId":51396,"journal":{"name":"Family Process","volume":"64 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/famp.70063","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144915066","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Beyond the Breadwinner: A Descriptive Qualitative Study of the Experiences, Challenges, and Mental Health Needs of Fathers in Singapore During the Postpartum Period","authors":"Aayisha, Jamie Qiao Xin Ng, Cornelia Yin Ing Chee, Cindy-Lee Dennis, Mahesh Choolani, Shefaly Shorey","doi":"10.1111/famp.70065","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/famp.70065","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Postpartum experiences and challenges faced by fathers in Singapore are often overlooked. A more comprehensive understanding is essential to identify areas for supporting fathers' mental health and developing father-inclusive healthcare strategies, ultimately enhancing family-centered care. The perinatal period is challenging for fathers, with shifts in roles, routine changes, and societal pressures which can lead to anxiety or depression, especially during postpartum. The aim of this paper was to explore the experiences, challenges, emotional, and mental health needs of multi-racial fathers in Singapore during postpartum. We used a descriptive qualitative design. Thirteen fathers were recruited through purposive sampling from a single tertiary hospital in Singapore. They were invited to participate in a one-to-one semi-structured interview via Zoom at 1 month postpartum. Interviews were audio recorded, transcribed verbatim, and analyzed using thematic analysis. Four themes were identified: (a) great expectations and self-blame; (b) dual role of provider-caregiver; (c) when family support helps and hurts; (d) visibility of fathers' mental health. We learned that fathers often suppressed emotional struggles due to societal expectations of masculinity. While they valued caregiving support from family, conflicting parenting beliefs caused tension. Fathers also faced financial pressures, frequently assuming provider roles despite dual-income households, alongside active caregiving responsibilities. The findings highlight the need for discreet, gender-sensitive mental health support, such as routine check-ins and male-oriented services that are tailored to fathers' needs. Future research should develop diagnostic tools specific to paternal postpartum depression for better identification and support.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":51396,"journal":{"name":"Family Process","volume":"64 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144897412","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Family ProcessPub Date : 2025-08-26DOI: 10.1111/famp.70064
Angela B. Bradford, Min Xu, Lee N. Johnson, Shayne R. Anderson, Richard B Miller, Alyssa Banford Witting, Roy A. Bean, Quintin A. Hunt
{"title":"Past to Present: The Role of ACEs in Emotion Regulation and Emotion Regulation's Subsequent Association With Relationship Satisfaction in Couple Therapy","authors":"Angela B. Bradford, Min Xu, Lee N. Johnson, Shayne R. Anderson, Richard B Miller, Alyssa Banford Witting, Roy A. Bean, Quintin A. Hunt","doi":"10.1111/famp.70064","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/famp.70064","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This study examines the longitudinal associations between relationship satisfaction and emotion regulation (ER) difficulties across 8 sessions of couple therapy. It further tests adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) as a predictor of these constructs and therapeutic alliance as a moderator of the effects of ACEs. A cross-lagged panel model was used to test actor and partner effects in a sample of 972 different-sex couples at intake, session four, and session eight of relationship therapy. Results suggest there is neither a long-term bidirectional relationship between relationship satisfaction and ER difficulties nor that ACEs are directly related to relationship satisfaction for actors. Instead, ACEs predict ER difficulties at session four, through which there is also an indirect effect on ER difficulties at session eight. Additionally, men's ER difficulties at intake predict women's relationship satisfaction at session four. The therapeutic alliance did neither predict nor moderate the effect of ACEs. Clinical implications include assessing for and intervening on the effects of ACEs, attending to men's early ER and its impact on their partners, and treating ER difficulties and relationship satisfaction concurrently in couple therapy.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":51396,"journal":{"name":"Family Process","volume":"64 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144897415","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Family ProcessPub Date : 2025-08-22DOI: 10.1111/famp.70066
Nofar Mazursky
{"title":"Patterns of Parental Relationships With LGBTQ+ Youth Aged Out of Out-Of-Home Care","authors":"Nofar Mazursky","doi":"10.1111/famp.70066","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/famp.70066","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The study's purpose was to explore the relationships between parents and LGBTQ+ youth who left their homes and went to residential out-of-home care. This study sheds light on different patterns of family relationships, offering insights into the changes that may occur at three points in time: before, during, and after leaving out-of-home care. Employing constructivist grounded theory methodology, 31 in-depth semi-structured interviews were conducted with LGBTQ+ youth aged 16 to 32 (average 21.6) who had aged out of out-of-home care services for homeless LGBTQ+ youth in Israel. The analysis indicated four patterns of relationships: (a) improvement pattern, reflecting a gradual increase in parental acceptance levels over time; (b) partial acceptance pattern, showing a middle situation between conditional acceptance and rejection; (c) from rejection to acceptance pattern, demonstrating rejection before and during out-of-home care, which rapidly progressed to acceptance after leaving out-of-home care; and (d) persistent disconnection pattern, indicating permanent rejection. The discussion highlights the need to train family therapists to recognize distinct relational patterns between LGBTQ+ youth and their families and to tailor interventions accordingly. Policy efforts should include funding for family support centers and the assignment of dedicated LGBTQ+ caseworkers within local social service departments to promote parental acceptance and reduce the risk of youth homelessness.</p>","PeriodicalId":51396,"journal":{"name":"Family Process","volume":"64 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/famp.70066","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144888379","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Family ProcessPub Date : 2025-08-13DOI: 10.1111/famp.70055
Die Wang, Yi Yao, Jiahui Lai, Yaoyao Zhang, Chenyu Wang, Cheng Guo
{"title":"Co-Parenting Behaviors and Parenting Stress Amid China's Cultural Shifts in Parental Roles: Dual Perspectives From Mothers and Fathers","authors":"Die Wang, Yi Yao, Jiahui Lai, Yaoyao Zhang, Chenyu Wang, Cheng Guo","doi":"10.1111/famp.70055","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/famp.70055","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>With sociocultural changes in China, the traditional mother-dominated parenting model has shifted toward a more collaborative approach. However, the role of fathers in Chinese family parenting and the dyadic relationship between co-parenting behaviors and parenting stress remain insufficiently explored. This study explores the relationship between Chinese parents' co-parenting behaviors and their own and their partner's parenting stress, and further reveals the diversity of co-parenting behavior patterns in Chinese adolescent families and examines the variations in parenting stress across different co-parenting types. Participants included 1313 families in Chongqing, China (fathers: <i>M</i><sub>age</sub> = 39.78, mothers: <i>M</i><sub>age</sub> = 37.59, children: <i>M</i><sub>age</sub> = 10.08, 55.1% male). Parents completed two self-report questionnaires assessing their co-parenting behaviors and parenting stress. Results showed that both fathers' and mothers' positive/negative co-parenting behaviors were negatively/positively correlated with their parenting stress, respectively, with fathers' positive co-parenting behaviors also negatively correlating with mothers' parenting stress. Latent profile analysis identified four co-parenting behavior profiles: (a) cooperative, (b) cooperative-moderation, (c) compromising, and (d) coexisting. Parenting stress was lowest in cooperative families. Fathers in cooperative-moderation families reported significantly lower stress than those in compromising and coexisting families, with no significant differences between the latter two. For mothers, no significant differences in parenting stress were found between the cooperative and coexisting profiles or between the cooperative-moderation and compromising profiles. These findings extend the understanding of co-parenting dynamics within the changing Chinese family context and provide empirical support for family interventions aimed at reducing parenting stress.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":51396,"journal":{"name":"Family Process","volume":"64 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144833064","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Family ProcessPub Date : 2025-08-13DOI: 10.1111/famp.70062
Jinhui Qiao, Hongjian Cao, Cheryl Buehler, Nan Zhou
{"title":"Interparental Hostility and Cooperative Interparental Conflict Interact to Predict Chinese Adolescents' Problematic Smartphone Use Through Adolescents' Conflict Appraisals","authors":"Jinhui Qiao, Hongjian Cao, Cheryl Buehler, Nan Zhou","doi":"10.1111/famp.70062","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/famp.70062","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Interparental hostility is a risk factor for adolescents' problematic smartphone use (PSU). However, the mechanisms implicated in this association remain unclear. Using three-wave, multi-informant data from 364 Chinese parent–child dyads over the junior high school years (grades 7–9, <i>M</i><sub>child age</sub> = 12.00, SD = 0.38, 58.8% boys), this study examined how parents' reports of interparental hostility at Grade 7 related to adolescents' reports of PSU at Grade 9, with adolescents' reports of conflict appraisals at Grade 8 (i.e., threat, self-blame, low coping efficacy) tested as potential mediators and parents' reports of interparental cooperative conflict at Grade 7 (i.e., constructive problem solving, marital warmth, and effective conflict resolution) as possible moderators. Results demonstrated that when interparental constructive problem solving at Grade 7 was low, interparental hostility at Grade 7 positively predicted adolescents' PSU at Grade 9 through a positive association with adolescents' threat at Grade 8. In contrast, when interparental constructive problem solving was high, interparental hostility at Grade 7 negatively predicted adolescents' PSU at Grade 9 through a negative association with adolescents' threat at Grade 8. Furthermore, interparental hostility at Grade 7 was negatively associated with adolescents' self-blame at Grade 8 when interparental effective conflict resolution at Grade 7 was low. These findings shed some light on the complexity in the underlying mechanisms for the links between interparental hostility and adolescents' PSU. These findings highlight the need for efforts among parents, clinicians, and policymakers to mitigate adolescents' PSU by addressing interparental conflict and adolescents' conflict appraisals.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":51396,"journal":{"name":"Family Process","volume":"64 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144833063","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Parent–Child Discrepancies in Perceived Parental Coparenting During the COVID-19 Lockdown: Associations With Chinese Adolescents' Emotional Well-Being","authors":"Jiefeng Ying, Sihan Liu, Jialin Shi, Yizhen Ren, Xiaoqing Yu, Xinchun Wu","doi":"10.1111/famp.70061","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/famp.70061","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Parent–child discrepancies in reports of perceived parenting behaviors are common and have been linked to adolescent mental health. However, little is known about these discrepancies for parenting behaviors involving the father–mother–child triad, such as coparenting, and their impact on adolescents' emotional well-being, especially during extraordinary circumstances such as lockdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study tested a mediating model to examine whether and how discrepancy patterns are associated with depression and anxiety in adolescents through emotion regulation strategies (e.g., expressive suppression, cognitive reappraisal) among Chinese families during the pandemic. The participants included 747 adolescents (48.6% male; <i>M</i><sub><i>age</i></sub> = 13.26 years, <i>SD</i> = 3.39) and both their mothers and fathers. Adolescents completed assessments of perceived parental coparenting behaviors, emotion regulation strategies, depression, and anxiety. Parents completed assessments of their own coparenting behaviors. Latent profile analysis with a person-centered approach was used to identify four profiles of parent–child discrepancies in negative coparenting and three profiles in positive coparenting. Adolescents who reported more negative coparenting (i.e., conflict and disparagement) or less positive coparenting (i.e., integrity and reprimand) than their parents adopted increased expressive suppression and decreased cognitive reappraisal, which were associated with higher levels of depression and anxiety during the pandemic. This study emphasizes the importance of comprehending the patterns of parent–child discrepancies in family dynamics and highlights the practical importance of improving emotion regulation strategies in adolescents from maladaptive family patterns to maintain their emotional well-being.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":51396,"journal":{"name":"Family Process","volume":"64 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144814890","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}