Parent-Adolescent Transmission of Socioeconomic Status: Testing Serial Mediation of Conflict Behaviors, Emotion Regulation, and Empathy

Matthijs Fakkel; Margot Peeters; Wilma A.M. Vollebergh; Susan Branje

doi:10.1177/21676968231183029

Parent-Adolescent Transmission of Socioeconomic Status: Testing Serial Mediation of Conflict Behaviors, Emotion Regulation, and Empathy

Matthijs Fakkel^*, Margot Peeters, Wilma A.M. Vollebergh, Susan Branje

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Abstract

In this study, we investigated whether the intergenerational transmission of SES is mediated by parental and adolescents’ conflict behaviors, emotion regulation, and empathy. Longitudinal serial mediation analyses were performed on a subset of adolescents (M_age = 13.03) and their parents from the RADAR cohort study (N = 320, 52.2% boys) in the Netherlands. Results showed partial support for intergenerational transmission of SES, mostly between mothers and girls. However, no mediation effect was found, primarily because parental SES was mostly unrelated to parental conflict behaviors. Parental conflict behaviors did affect adolescent conflict behaviors, emotion regulation, and empathy, which in turn were associated with SES outcomes in young adulthood. This study nuances the proposition of the family stress model that parents from a lower SES background – as a result of economic stress – display less constructive and more destructive conflict behaviors.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1196-1210
Number of pages	15
Journal	Emerging Adulthood
Volume	11
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/21676968231183029
Publication status	Published - Oct 2023

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© 2023 Society for the Study of Emerging Adulthood and SAGE Publishing.

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The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This study is supported by Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (024.001.003).

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Keywords

Conflict behaviors
Emotion regulation
Empathy
Intergenerational transmission
Socioeconomic status

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